Three out of five manufacturing firms are suffering “significant” disruption because of border delays since the start of the year, new research suggests.
Trade body Make UK called on the Government to find an urgent solution to the problem which it said was caused by complex paperwork.
Boris Johnson said last week that businesses were suffering “teething problems” a month after the Brexit trade deal came into effect.
But many firms are warning that the disruption will force them to restructure and could even drive them out of business. Make UK’s Ben Fletcher said the last month had been “like Dante’s fifth circle of hell” for importers and exporters unable to move supplies because of new red tape.
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