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Wasn't aware of that, but anyway I thought one of the main Brexit motivations was free trading with everyone (where possible) so why charge vat on imports from China?
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Wasn't aware of that, but anyway I thought one of the main Brexit motivations was free trading with everyone (where possible) so why charge vat on imports from China?
Only way you're going to avoid paying VAT on imports is if you're part of a customs union. We used to be part of a customs union with 27 of our largest trading partners. It's called the EU.
Brommers
That's not a Brexit dividend though - it's a change in EU import rules which we were in the process of implementing, and brought into force around the same date as the end of the Brexit transition period.
Meantime the EU27 have delayed their implementation of the same regulations until later in the year, I think because of covid.