Countdown to chaos: firms race to beat the Brexit clock
With just under six weeks to go until the end of the Brexit transition period, businesses are braced for rocky times as the old way of doing things becomes a thing of the past
Last Monday, Mick Woods, the commercial director of Emerald Freight, received a call from a well-known Irish company.
With just over 40 days left until the Brexit transition period ends, the firm was desperately looking for a customs broker that would handle the multitude of paperwork that will be required on its UK imports from January 1.
Despite getting between 1,200 and 1,500 deliveries from Britain a year, this well-known business still hadn’t come up ...
