EU-UK trade: customs duty impact on distribution centre models

Jessica Yang
Jessica Yang
Director, JY XBorder Consulting LLC, Switzerland
Published 05 Jan 2021
EU-UK trade: customs duty impact on distribution centre models
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Duties & taxes
What does the EU-UK TCA mean for businesses that sell finished goods of EU origin to EU customers from the UK, and vice versa? This article addresses questions increasingly asked by businesses with distribution centre models. Specifically, questions relating to how to mitigate customs duty when trading originating goods between the UK and the EU in 2021.

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