‘Unable to recover the tariff’
Northern Ireland’s unionist Deputy First Minister Emma Little-Pengelly has also warned that the duty reimbursement scheme isn’t up to scratch. It is “not fit for purpose for businesses,” she said Thursday.
One of Manufacturing NI’s members, Kelly said, sought what would have been a small amount of money, a few hundred pounds, from the scheme, he said. “It took three days to capture the information and go and find it.”
Data required to make a claim includes details about the supply chain and where the product comes from, as well as shipping information, product codes, value, weight, names of people involved in the shipping, confirmation that it left and arrived and more.
The firm’s application was eventually rejected. “There wasn’t enough information that was available,” Kelly said, explaining that the burden of evidence to prove goods won’t travel on to the EU’s Single Market is “exceptionally high.”
This means that “lots of people have been unable to actually recover a tariff that’s due to them,” he said. “And even more businesses have not even attempted even going there.”
Anger in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland’s singular predicament in Trump’s trade war has angered unionist politicians.
