British companies have been made more difficult to trade with the EU this year under the terms of the Brexit trade deal struck with the bloc.
The British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) announced that 45 percent of the companies surveyed in October considered it very or relatively difficult to trade goods with the EU, compared to 30 percent in January, when the Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) came into force. Capital.ba.
For British exporting companies, that figure was 60 percent.
"These data certainly illustrate that the problems with TCA are not transitory, but rather structural flaws that, while fixable, will, if not addressed, lead to long-term damage to our import and export sectors," said the BCC director. Shevaun Haviland.
The share of companies reporting difficulties in trading services with the EU also increased from 14 to 23 percent.
The survey results match official figures showing that British exporters have struggled to meet international standards since the fifth world economy left the EU.
In October, the UK was the only country in the Group of Seven leaders whose goods exports did not recover to their average level of 2018.
Supporters of Brexit believe that, in the long term, Britain will be better able to take advantage of faster-growing markets than when it was a member. Many economists are skeptical that it will make up for lost trade with the bloc.
The survey was conducted on about a thousand companies in the period from October 7 to 31.
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