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Any idea how many EU multinational headquarters and logistics centers the UK has, versus Switzerland or Norway? Right... What about financial centers? Make no

by markvdb 10y ago

Any idea how many EU multinational headquarters and logistics centers the UK has, versus Switzerland or Norway? Right... What about financial centers? Make no mistake. This will have a significant impact. Even my small laser cutting service company in Riga, Latvia (<shameless plug>https://lusis.eu</shameless https://lusis.eu</shameless plug>) has to charge non-EU clients extra because of the real barriers exporting outside of the EU.

duncanawoods 10y ago
I'm interested - what precisely are the barriers you see?
- markvdb 10y ago
  It may sound silly, but here's a few: * extra customs checks, even if there is no customs rate * different VAT procedures from the common market * courier and postal services delivering strictly within the EU, or charging a premium for dealing with the barriers of delivering outside of it Apart from that, anecdotally, even within the EU, we noticed that UK customers were strangely much less informed about SEPA bank transfers (between € accounts, within EFTA) than even non-EU EFTA members.