The broad sunlit uplands of next March. Yeah, really. .

[BertMk2]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Larger organisations will no doubt already have the tools since they've been sending goods all around the world anyway.

There are a lot of new bits of paperwork and system interfaces needed for EU and Northern Ireland trade - we have taken on extra people just to deal with the customs declarations we now need (we already do international shipments - these extra staff are purely for Brexit related work) as well as all the 'vets' we now need . We have new software interfaces to external systems purely for Brexit related changes - all of that adds extra cost. Add in the longer timescales and less efficient shipping of stock and the associated loss of shelf life and it's all looking very marginal as to whether it's worth doing or not. Whichever way you cut it costs have gone up - ok so there's no tariff, but there are a lot of extra costs.

As an amusing sidenote - we had a truck turned back by customs as it didn't have a Export Health Certificate for one of the products. The product in question? Veggie Kievs