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But what has really riled ministers is the section on what this deal with the EU would mean for future trade deals. The paper is explicit that this deal ‘would not allow the UK to accommodate a likely ask from the US in a future trade deal’ as the UK would be unable to recognise the US’s ‘array...

Actually what is happening with the anti-dumping duty on chinese ebikes should give us a taste of how the EU will treat the UK after Brexit. It is obvious that any trade situation that is adverse to the EU will be slapped down with tariffs. When we were part of the EU we were the country that...

May’s white paper is expected to propose the UK remaining indefinitely in a single market for goods after Brexit, to avoid the need for checks at the Irish border. While the UK is offering concessions on financial services, it wants restrictions on free movement of people – a long-standing no-go...

I always thought that Boris Johnson looked like a clown but under the skin he was a bright bloke. But I have come to realise that he really is a clown. Unfortunately his cabinet colleagues are out of the same mould so getting rid of him means more of the same. Surprised that May has not sacked...

Stansted thought of the future,the problem of airports is that adding more plane stands means the long walks back to the terminal. Stansted with its underground rail system only needs to dig a longer tunnel and lay some more track to add stands. KudosDave

When I fly from Stansted it appears to have a lot of virgin land. Surely rebuilding a few warehouses and relocating a few businesses could not cost £14 billion. The land back at Heathrow would be prime building land worth a fortune,that would offset the cost of moving. I suspect there are...

Does anyone know why Stansted is not used more. I am told that 40% of the traffic into Heathrow is freight. Surely freight would be better handled at Stansted,it would reduce traffic at M25 near Heathrow and I think they are proposing a new motorway from Cambridge to the M1-thus freight being...

The EU and the UK have said they want to reach an agreement on future trade, but leading Brexiteers say failing to reach a deal would not be disastrous. They have said the UK could revert to rules set by the WTO, and have claimed that's how we currently trade with the rest of the world. "It is...

Fake news.....March 30,2019 An over zealous French customs officer is stopping trucks at Calais to collect WTO tariffs. The M20 was gridlocked in an hour,the M25 jammed in 3 hours spreading to the M1,M11,M3,M4,M11. May is being kept informed,currently hill walking in East Anglia,Boris is on a...

Any company with China at the start of the title is wholly owned by the Chinese government.....that is already a lot of businesses. KudosDave

Whitehall sources said they believed free movement of goods was “100% the direction of travel” as the prime minister’s focus shifts to the next battle over Britain’s future relationship with the EU after next week’s Brussels summit. Downing Street remained tight-lipped, reiterating that the UK...

The anti dumping duty has pretty much killed off the UK e-bike industry....I have spoken to many importers,actually most,that are no longer ordering e-bikes from China. Kudos has about 3 months stock left,not sure where we go after that. The days of inexpensive chinese ebikes in the UK are...

Dont forget that the chinese internal air market is the fastest growing in the world...China Eastern (awful airline,always late and old planes) is intending to buy 750 new planes over the next five years,these will probably be the new chinese built Comac aircraft but I am sure that Airbus and...

The last time I visited China one of my previous e-bike suppliers had pretty much given up on selling to the EU but was now concentrating on selling to the US. Today I read that Trump intended to hit all bicycles,normal and bikes from China would be subject to 25% duty. KudosDave

Just to warn you guys that Amazon were fined euro 20,000 for incorrect labelling on watch batteries that were delivered by air. So playing games with incorrect labelling is not worth the risk. I was in the queue at Guangzhou airport ,the guy in front had some form of battery booster that...

Sorry to throw petrol on the fire but where do you get 15% from? I think it is likely to be same as vanilla bikes at 54%,I read somewhere 189% !!! KudosDave

You forget that the Chinese raise their own invoices,they can put whatever value they like on exports. I know of one company from Ningbo,who sells on e-bay,that values all UK imports at 5% of the true value,our HMRC haven't a clue of real value,they are underresourced to do a proper job. I have...

I am confused which David you are referring to. Wisper and Woosh...neither of you are looking at the big picture. We in the UK are so small a market that we are almost irrelevant to the Chinese but the rest of Europe is very important to the big Chinese assemblers. My conversations with the...

All the problems of our high street are not evident in this Greek city, there are no empty shops,no charity shops,all the multis are here,all well stocked. Thessaloniki is about the same size as as a UK city such as Leeds or Stoke but is so much more prosperous. I am told that wealthy Greeks...

Just a suggestion but if ADT is not being applied to Taiwan then find a friendly Taiwanese business,it doesn't have to be a bike assembler any business will do. Then ship the bikes from Taiwan. Remember that our HMRC are completely useless at determining rules of origin. I am sure that much of...