Brexit, the British shippers ask their government to assure that the United Kingdom remains in the customs union of the EU



The British shipment houses exhort the whom charged negotiators of the United Kingdom of dealing the escape of the nation from the European Union, that a year is decided with referendum almost makes, to reach an agreement so that the United Kingdom remains inside of the customs union of the EU.

"In the course of the weekend - the general manager of the British International Freight Association (BIFA), Robert Keen has asserted, remembering that today on Brussels they are started it negotiate on the Brexit - we have felt the chancellor of the Chessboards British, Philip Hammond, to refute the speculations on the fact that the United Kingdom could aim to "a soft" Brexit and continue to take part of the customs union and the only market of the European Union. As many - it has emphasized Keen - the BIFA considers that the advantages economic of the only market of the European Union, that the free circulation of the goods, the services, the capital and the people, and the customs union allows, that inside affords the free exchange of goods of the EU, would have to be safeguarded sinché, at the end, will not be agreed and put in existence a final agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU".

"To light of the confusion determined from the results of the recent elections and from the lack of clearly sent of the electorate of the United Kingdom - it has continued the representative of the association of the British shippers - Mr Hammond and the others they would have to try to convince their colleagues see again the decision to leave the customs union of the EU, as indicated by Theresa May in its speech to Lancaster House to January".

"Efficient and effective international exchanges commercial - it has emphasized Keen - need fluidity to the borders and the BIFA is worried that to leave the customs union it will carry to the imposition of rates, controls to the frontiers, customs declarations and bureaucracy at the expense of the numerous British enterprises that operate inside of the EU let alone of the associates of the BIFA that supply the logistic services that support these commerce".

The BIFA is worried however that the British negotiators do not have sufficient to be able legal in order to obtain the maintenance of the United Kingdom in the customs union of the EU: "as others have already found - Keen has explained - the failure of the electoral round in assuring a sent fort have left the team of the United Kingdom delegated to the Brexit in a legal position a lot weakened".

"On behalf of its associates - it has concluded Keen - the BIFA recommends that the government must maintain to a vision opened on the necessary solutions for the period Brexit post, rather than to throw the child with water gets dirty assuming an intransigent attitude on the adhesion to the customs union".