To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what support the Government is planning to provide to small and medium-sized enterprises who face additional customs procedures after the UK has left the Customs Union.
Answered on
25 October 2017
Ensuring that UK-EU trade is as frictionless as possible is one of the Government’s objectives for our future customs relationship with the EU. In the Future Customs Arrangements: A Future Partnership paper and the Customs Bill White Paper, the Government set out two broad approaches for achieving this objective: a highly streamlined customs arrangement or a new customs partnership. However, the precise nature of our future customs relationship with the EU will be a matter for the negotiations
The Government is engaging with businesses, including small and medium-sized enterprises, in every sector and region of the UK economy to understand the challenges and what may impact them in future. HMRC will support businesses with the necessary education and guidance structures to be ready for future trade with the EU.