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29-08-2017, 08:25 AM
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WTO Rules The Boring Bits

Hi

So we leave in 2019, no deal, just tell the EU to swan off.

The prefered option of Jacob Rees Mogg and some others, including many on here.

Pay them nothing, just go, no transition period, save all the dosh we pay them.

We will then rely on WTO Rules, which after 40 years, we go back to for all the deals we were part of when in the EU.

The way we are doing this using a process called Technical Rectification, there are other ways, but this is the one chosen by our Government.

We did not start this immediately after the Referendum, in fact we did not start it until Easter this year.

The figures are huge, it is now agreed that we have

759 agreements with 168 Countries which have to be agreed just to stand still.

This a phenomenal amount of work as it involves over 10,000 subsidiary schedules.

For example the EU agreed to take in x number of cars from non EU countries, we have to agree how many of them are our share not only in total, but how many in each tariff band.

It is not just cars, it is engine oil, hydraulic fluid,the thousands of different types of electronics, coffee, smoked fish, prawns, cooked and raw have different tariffs and volumes etc etc.

Many of these are not electronic, they are in paper archives in the WTO Headquarters.

We have a team over there digging them out, slowly.

These then all have to be coded into the new computer system we are developing.

The Government are hoping to have this system live by the time we leave, a source of much amusement or despair to those involved in doing so.

We have to get the agreement of all those concerned for this, they cannot be unilateral decisions on our part, we have to comply with the rules of the WTO.

It is not as simple as just upping sticks and leaving.

If we do leave without a deal with the EU, through which many of these goods are imported, we will then have to check the HGV's bringing them in.

In Dover alone, just at the Ferry Port, we will have to process an additional 8000 loads a day.

It takes 20 minutes to process a simple load, more if the vehicle is carrying more than one type of goods.

The Maths is really very simple, we will need an additional 415 Customs Officers at the Port of Dover alone.

Employed, trained, hand held computers and a fully functioning system which works from day one.

If we need to open the vehicle up to check, the time is doubled and you need three Customs Officers, not one.

We will also need a huge lorry park to do this.

There is no room for this at the Port itself, it will have to be built outside, up the Motorway.

Absolutely nothing has been done about this, not even a CPO to get the land.

We triggered Article 50 before we were ready to leave.

This is why we are now having to ask for a Transition Period.

The EU has not as much pressure on it to agree to one as we do.

As an example, the huge volumes of cars they export to the UK.

These come through different ports, on specialist ships and are all standard units, finished goods, so a very simple change in paperwork for them.

Most of our goods exports to the EU go through the Channel Ports, building huge customs posts and lorry parks is a doddle for them at Calais, loads of state owned land right next to the Port.

The sad thing is that if we had got our finger out straight away and delayed Article 50 for a year, we could have just left and our negotiations would be on a much better basis.

What is done is done, we cannot turn the clock back, but we do need to get on with this much more quickly than we are doing.
 

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