Mrs May and Mr Davis’ oft repeated aspiration for ‘frictionless’ trade with the European Union (EU) via a free trade agreement (FTA) and mutual recognition of standards will in reality consign the United Kingdom to being a permanent EU vassal […]
Mrs May and Mr Davis’ oft repeated aspiration for ‘frictionless’ trade with the European Union (EU) via a free trade agreement (FTA) and mutual recognition of standards will in reality consign the United Kingdom to being a permanent EU vassal […]
Mrs May and Mr Davis are opening a Pandora’s Box of complexity, confusion and chaos by advocating the Mutual Recognition of Standards to achieve ‘frictionless’ trade post Brexit. They appear not even to know the basics, being unwilling or unable […]
Notified Bodies (Nobos), together with Designated Bodies (Debos) and Assessment Bodies (Asbos), are one of our country’s least known success stories. Yet they could easily largely disappear, together with thousands of well paid jobs and millions if not billions of […]
The UK’s International trade depends upon efficient electronic systems that avoid entry inspections and delays at border crossings. These systems depend upon various mutually-agreed standards on both sides of the border. Unfortunately, the recently-published Government Position Papers on Brexit chose […]
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