>Of course a UK company should not be shipping to Italy and back to the UK. They aren't a UK company, they're an Italian company. Per the article it was sold

>Of course a UK company should not be shipping to Italy and back to the UK. They aren't a UK company, they're an Italian company. Per the article it was sold in 2002. == Owned since 2002 by Italian bicycle saddles firm Selle Royale, Brooks England’s suspension of orders from UK customers highlights one of the impacts of Brexit on trade between the UK and the EU. === >The UK is now outside the European Union. There are trade barriers now. The agreement was signed on December 25th and is 1200 pages long. It's ridiculous to assume that a business could be ready in 6 days for a 1200 page agreement... this is just further incompetence on the part of the politicians running the show in the UK. == But the fact that the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement, which runs to 1,200 pages, was only signed on Christmas Eve has given businesses little time to assess the new rules and adapt their practices and systems to them. ==