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Fears Windsor Framework will bring shoppers North

Mar 1, 2023 08:56 By News Northern Sound
Fears Windsor Framework will bring shoppers North
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We can't get those goods at the same cost base in the south.

Hauliers hope the politicians who negotiated the Windsor Framework have a plan B if, in the event, it doesn't work. They're expected to outline the problems facing the sector during a meeting later of the Oireachtas committee on European Affairs.

IRHA President, Eugene Drennan is welcoming the deal on a political level, but says he has reservations about how it will work. "There will be a different VAT rate and the excise duty on alcohol will be that of the UK which will be cheaper.

"And it's within living memory since we saw bus operators running buses to the North so people could do their shopping. So, what's to stop people from going back up to Northern Ireland and buying these goods? We can't get those goods at the same cost base in the south.

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