The trick to getting boots on the ground in the EU after Brexit
Tricker’s top-end shoes now have to comply with different VAT rates across 27 EU member states
26 January 2021 - 15:25
Northampton — At Tricker’s, a 192-year-old maker of English luxury shoes beloved by Prince Charles and Japanese fashionistas, relief at averting a no-deal Brexit quickly turned to dismay at the new price of doing business with the EU.
Invoices are mounting from parcel firms that ship the company’s heavy brogue shoes and boots — which typically sell for £450 a pair — to EU clients, saddling it with extra costs that could hit £100,000 a year...
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