And this new world means that there have to be customs formalities when goods are moved from one side to the other." Sensitive chains of supply "It is not my place to judge the decision by the British people, but we have to prepare for this new world. Thillier declined to comment on whether British preparations are being undertaken in a serious spirit. According to the rules of the new trade deal, the UK customs authority intend to check goods coming from the EU only in the middle of this year.
On the British side, they are taking their time. Thillier spoke of a 'new world' where more formalities are necessary We have installed new computer technology and hope that this system functions automatically to some extent so that clearance times are kept short," said Thillier, dressed in his elegant dress uniform for the on-site visit in Calais. "We have worked hard and hired 60 new people to create a new customs administration that is open around the clock. The UK and France carry out joint checks of papers, even on each other's territory. Companies can declare their goods and pay customs duties online under a system called "smart border." The drivers receive a barcode that then only has to be read at the border. The customs service carried out large-scale practice drills and invested in new data processing methods. In nearby Calais, the top customs officer for the Haut-de-France region, Jean-Michel Thillier, was monitoring the smooth progress of the new checks that he had helped prepare for years, as he says. He said that things were fairly quiet now, but that the last weeks before Christmas had been very busy because a lot of warehouses and factories had wanted to stock up before Brexit was finalized. "The real test will come in a few weeks when the amount of goods increases and the trucking companies are working at full capacity," Hermann said.
Hermann expects things to get busier in Dunkirk
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