New Government advice will help traders submit customs import declarations for non-controlled goods imported from the EU, it has been announced.
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Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced new trade and investment deals with India worth £1bn, in a move that aims to secure a future full trade agreement between the two countries. It includes more than £533m of new investment from India into the UK, which is expected to create about […]
Europe’s biggest bank, HSBC, has reported stronger than expected profits and says the economic outlook is looking brighter. The bank reported income of $5.8 billion (£4.2 billion) for the January-to-March period, up from $3.2bn a year earlier. More than half of its profits came from Asia, the region where the […]
The impact of the Government’s new freeports policy has been questioned by a Parliamentary committee. As the UK prepares to roll out its freeports policy to “turbo-charge” post-Brexit trade, a report released this week by the International Trade Committee questions the real impact of the special trade zones on British […]
The news that confidence among Britain’s biggest businesses has hit a record high, has been followed up with good news on UK trade with the EU. According to new figures published as parts of the economy reopen from lockdown, optimism is at its highest level for 13 years. A quarterly […]
As Covid-19 kept consumers around the world at home, nearly everything from groceries to gardening supplies was purchased online.
A new training and support package designed specifically to help small and medium-sized firms manage changes to trade rules with the EU has launched.
More than 6.5 million UK jobs are supported by exports, according to research conducted by the Department for International Trade (DIT) and the University of Strathclyde.
The Government has announced that the UK has signed an Economic Partnership Agreement with Cameroon. The post-Brexit trade deal will support jobs and ‘build future prosperity’, the Department for International Trade (DIT) said. The deal provides certainty for businesses in both countries and allows them to continue trading without any […]
The European Commission, in response to the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, has decided to postpone its new European VAT rules for business-to-consumer (B2C) transactions until 1 July 2021. These new rules are part of the EU’s new e-commerce package and will look to introduce a VAT One-Stop-Shop (OSS) […]