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#1,344
Oh dear, what a shame, all this Brexit thing

" Brussels to stick with plan for post-Brexit tariffs on UK EV imports from 2024, London and carmakers seek delay but commission official says levies will provide incentive for EU battery production

The European Commission has insisted it will stick by plans to impose tariffs on electric vehicles shipped between the UK and EU from next year after warning that the bloc was losing out in the global battle for battery investments.The British government, backed by carmakers from across Europe, is seeking a deferral of a post-Brexit trade rule it argues will heap excessive costs on to the industry from 2024 to 2027.The requirement under “rules of origin” requires EVs traded across the Channel to have 60 per cent of their battery and 45 per cent of their parts by value overall sourced from the EU or UK or face 10 per cent tariffs.But this week a senior commission official, Richard Szostak, told British and EU parliamentarians that battery investment in the bloc had “fallen off a cliff” and the tariffs would incentivise domestic production. The EU’s share of global investment in battery production dropped from 41 per cent in 2021 to just 2 per cent in 2022, after the US offered large subsidies under its Inflation Reduction Act, he noted.“In addition to the pull factor [from the US’s IRA] . . . we would be adding a push factor encouraging batteries to be bought in China or the US [by not introducing cross-Channel tariffs]. That is the other side of the discussion,” Szostak said. “The EU when judging its interest has to look at both sides of this question,” he added."

Brussels to stick with plan for post-Brexit tariffs on UK EV imports from 2024

London and carmakers seek delay but commission official says levies will provide incentive for EU battery production
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" Most Japanese and South Korean EVs can be imported into the UK tariff-free under the terms of their post-Brexit trade deals. This would mean EU carmakers losing market share in the UK if their EVs are hit with 10 per cent levies."

......... so UK based factories are first on the block. Just as predicted by Remain during the Brexit referendum. Apparently 52% of votes did not think this was important.
 
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petit_bateau said:
......... so UK based factories are first on the block. Just as predicted by Remain during the Brexit referendum. Apparently 52% of votes did not think this was important.
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ironically including votes from those near the major UK motor plants of Honda Swindon (now closed) and Sunderland (Nissan)

here is a perfect example of how we are emphatically not "taking back control".

Single market access & customs union would fix this and secure UK auto manufacturing, but as usual it will not be discussed.
 
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More on the EU - UK EV tariff thing ....

"After Britishvolt's collapse in January, the UK has almost no battery production to speak of, save for Nissan's plant in Sunderland, although EV battery specialist Envision has begun work on a new Gigafactory in the area. That plant is only slated to come online in 2025.

Analysts at Benchmark Minerals told us last year that they forecast European EV related cell demand to reach 1250 GWh by 2035, and a pipeline cell production capacity in Europe of 1155 GWh to 2035, across 30 plants."

www.theregister.com

Post-Brexit tariffs on EU-UK EV imports are going ahead

Commission official insists it has to protect itself against US subsidies
www.theregister.com www.theregister.com

the comments are the usual curates egg

Post-Brexit tariffs on cross EU-UK electrical vehicle imports still going ahead • The Register Forums

forums.theregister.com forums.theregister.com
 
#1,349
“Frankly, the left has to start caring a lot more about growth, about creating wealth, attracting inward investment and kickstarting a spirit of enterprise,” he says. “It is the only show in town for those who dream of a brighter future.”
Starmer's transition to a Blairite is complete, thank god. I thought I was going mad but I feel a bit better now. If he mentions clearing red tape, he could get back to a huge margin. At that point, if he remains popular he might be able to swing back towards Europe in his second manifesto.
 
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more Brexshit gifts, all just as predicted by Remain

‘We are at 50% of the quota we had’: boss of UK’s last long-range trawler rues ‘squandered’ Brexit hopes................UK Fisheries sold its only other UK vessel, the trawler Farnella, at the end of 2022. The company says it became unviable after the slashing of the whitefish quota awarded to the UK in last year’s negotiations with Norway.............Among the Kirkella’s majority Brexit-voting crew, the feeling is one of betrayal. ....“I voted Brexit, all of us did,” he says.

www.theguardian.com

‘We are at 50% of the quota we had’: boss of UK’s last long-range trawler rues ‘squandered’ Brexit hopes

The Kirkella used to bring in 10% of the cod and haddock sold in chip shops. But the post-EU settlement means its quotas have been slashed. Can it survive?
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

and

The number of English owners of second homes in France has fallen to 60,000, from 89,000 ....... an estate agent in Huelgoat, Brittany, said: “Many Britons have left the area. Since last summer, a lot of them have sold their second homes because the paperwork got too complicated for them to spend time here.”

The government survey also shows that buying a second home in the UK is far more popular than it used to be. The figures show 520,000 households now own second homes in the UK, up from 279,000 in 2008, ............. The campaign group Generation Rent recently described the holiday-let sector as “out of control”. Dan Wilson Craw, the group’s acting director, told the Guardian: “It has taken homes away from locals who grew up in holiday hotspots and people who want to work in the tourist industries, making these areas unsustainable.”

www.theguardian.com

Post-Brexit fall in English ownership of European second homes, figures show

Government survey finds that fewer than 30% of holiday homes are on continent – compared with 40% a decade ago
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

and

The Rock and the hard right: Gibraltar fears rise of Vox in Spanish election . Talks on border status are still not resolved, and success for the nationalist party could lead to a far more hardline attitude..............Officials in the territory have long been preparing for a breakdown in talks; last November, 19 departments and agencies, along with the UK’s Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence, held a six-hour exercise to simulate a no-deal scenario, while businesses have been warned they may have to stagger shifts in order to ease border flows, and build local accommodation for key workers.

www.theguardian.com

The Rock and the hard right: Gibraltar fears rise of Vox in Spanish election

Talks on border status are still not resolved, and success for the nationalist party could lead to a far more hardline attitude
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

and

Another British bike company goes under, citing Brexit trade barriers as a major factor ...........Former KTM UK agent FLi Distribution ceases trading, with the owner stating, "I'm done with the red tape and the barriers to trade"........................ "FLi is done", Williams writes, "If you voted for Brexit, please realise this is 90% because of your decision back in 2016."

www.bikeperfect.com

Another British bike company goes under, citing post-Brexit trading as a major factor

Former KTM UK agent FLi Distribution ceases trading, with the owner stating, "I'm done with the red tape and the barriers to trade"
www.bikeperfect.com www.bikeperfect.com
 
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More Brexit nonsense today concerning protected origin labels, where Welsh whisky now has protected status in the UK.

BBC news online seem to miss the point that the EU protected designation of origin label, which we had before Brexit, applied to all goods across the European single market, however the new "protected geographical indication (UK GI) status" only applies to goods within the much smaller UK market, and provides no protection in the EU at all.

The Welsh government agency Business Wales said it hoped the UK GI scheme would act as a “stepping stone for those wanting to go on to apply for EU protected status" - i.e. to hope that they get back to where they were previously before Brexit.

all so pointless.

www.theguardian.com

Welsh whisky to gain UK’s special protected origin label

Coles, Da Mhile, In the Welsh Wind and Penderyn distilleries awarded label in scheme brought in to replace EU version
www.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com

www.bbc.co.uk

Single malt Welsh whisky given post-Brexit PGI status

Iechyd da! Single malt Welsh whisky awarded protected status like Caerphilly Cheese.
www.bbc.co.uk
 
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Buckminster said:
Good for UK tourism?
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US has had its ESTA system in place for 14 years now. I would guess this has not impacted US tourism? its just an added cost, people will end up paying for it to go where they want to go.

in the scheme of things for a vacation with hotels, flights, food etc, the cost is not much.

of course, would rather there were less barriers, they are rarely good.
 
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