Brexit Impacts and Mitigation Strategies

This assignment examines the multifaceted impacts of Brexit on various sectors, including trade, foreign investment, and the UK labor market. It analyzes the potential ramifications of Brexit on economic growth, tariffs, and regulatory frameworks. Furthermore, it delves into strategies to mitigate these negative consequences and advocates for effective policies to address the challenges posed by Brexit.

Running head: CONTINUITY IN THE AVAILABILITY OF GOODS
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Table of Contents
Issues:.........................................................................................................................................3
Policy Objectives:......................................................................................................................3
Negotiation Strategies:...............................................................................................................5
Undisrupted availability of goods:.........................................................................................6
Avoidance of possible and unnecessary activity duplication:................................................7
Market surveillance and goods legislation:............................................................................8
No restriction to the provision of the services:......................................................................9
Final Recommendation:.............................................................................................................9
References:...............................................................................................................................10

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Issues:
The paper outlines the position of United Kingdom and principals for the negotiation
in order to secure the lowest possible disruption regarding availability of goods ensuring an
orderly and smooth withdrawal of UK from the European Union. The ambition of this paper
is to secure an inclusive future agreement with European union. It advocates for a frictionless
and freest trade in goods and services that will be beneficial for all.
Policy Objectives:
The UK’s objective is to ensure an orderly exit from the EU without any disruption
and to its citizens, investors and consumers. The UK aims to provide legal assurance and
certainty that will be aided by the common regulatory systems of both the EU and the UK.
Both the UK and EU are in position to gain benefit from the longstanding and
intimate trading relationship of services and goods. It is important that the business as well as
the consumers gain confidence about the goods. The data has revealed that in 2016 the EU
has been the largest market of the UK and the rest of the EU’s members have exported more
goods to the country than any other nation. Therefore, the citizens are benefitted from this
relationship and integrated regulatory system (Baldwin and Lopez‐Gonzalez 2015). They
comply with the product legislation that enable the safe product supply across the country.
This includes cost reduction, variety improvement, flexible supply chains, patient benefits
and innovated as well as high quality product. The consumers and the investors are ensured
that the market authorities are engaged in market surveillance and have access to knowledge
about the products.
The ambition of the UK is to engage in a sustainable future agreement with the
European Union and secure a frictionless trade by ensuring that the products are marketed
lawfully in the markets of both the EU and the UK (Ivona, Novačko and Ogrizović 2014).

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The UK’s suggestions on the customs and tariffs aim to build a deep and special relationship
with the EU. This encourages a smooth exit process related to the custom, tax and service
provisions (Crafts 2016). This also ensures that the goods must be reached the markets before
the withdrawal date but cross the border only after exit.
It serves for both the UK as well as the EU to maintain their deeply integrated trade
and economic partnership after the UK exits from the EU (Dhingra et al. 2016). The statistics
of the EU reveals that it has exported goods worth of 314 billion Euro to the UK in 2016,
which is more than its total exports to brazil, china, India and Russia.
Through the membership with the EU, the UK’s economies including the regulatory
system have achieved a deep integration. National Standards Bodies’ membership of
European and International Standards Organisations has enabled to develop the business
standards that the EU’s business use. The UK’s withdrawal bill will enable the UK to convert
the existing laws of the EU and give power of corrections to these laws. Therefore, these
regulations will be continuing to function in the country.
The UK recognizes that the future partnership will be built on the longstanding trust
as well as the commonalities of both the systems because this will not allow the either party
to ignore the starting point which is unique.
The UK acknowledges the import position of consumer and business in this
discussion therefore, it will be engaged in making the consumer and business organizations
understand and increasing concerns (Coulter and Hancké 2016). There are some problematic
issues associated with goods and services which the UK government aims to resolve. The
relevant issues regarding the separation discussion in relation with goods and services will be
resolved for better future partnership.

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As the UK-EU deal discusses, the UK’s only land border between Ireland and UK
will be protected for trade and free movements. the UK government has welcomed The
negotiation guidelines of the European council’s clear commitment and the European
commission’s directions to achieve this flexible relationship. This process needs intimate
engagement on agriculture, customs and other economic matters according to the progress of
the negotiations.
The UK government aims to work with the developed countries and the Crown
Dependencies, Gibraltar government and Overseas Territories, which are constitutionally
separated and have various interests. The UK will be fully engaged with these governments
to account the priorities of these countries regarding this issue.
Negotiation Strategies:
This paper strategizes four principles that will help in achieving the objectives of
offering certainty and avoiding problems associated with the continued availability of goods.
Firstly, the UK government wants to ensure undisrupted availability of goods in both
the UK as well as the EU markets at the withdrawal date. The goods available in the single
market must be continued to circulate freely in the UK and EU markets without any
additional restrictors.
Secondly, the government wants to avoid possible and unnecessary activity
duplication and provide the legal certainty. The markets where the trades undertake the
compliance activities before exit, the government do not expect any duplication of activities
to place the products on the markets after exit. This also includes the recognition of validity
approval, issues registration and certificates before exit.

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Thirdly, the UK government wants to ensure that the agreement will facilitate the
continued product as well as market surveillance and goods legislation (Ottaviano 2014).
This includes that the authority will take necessary action to the non-compliant products.
Fourthly, this agreement on goods undermines that the places where the goods reach
with services, will have no restriction to the provision of the services.
Undisrupted availability of goods:
The government holds that all products those are lawfully placed in the markets prior
to the exit will be continue to free circulation without any restrictions. This applies to all
types of goods including those which are regulated by the Union Law also those which are
authorized for free circulation recognised by the mutual recognition principle.
In order to avoid disturbance to the services to consumers and trade, the agreement
makes use of the proper and applicable definitions of placed goods in the market
(Kierzenkowski, Rusticelli and Zwart 2016). The agreement will recognise that these are
sector specific and provide an understandable and clear interpretation of the term products
place on the market.
The agreement will include the available goods on the EU and UK markets, therefore
it will provide assurance that no changes are needed to the continue supply of goods (Dymski
2015). This agreement issues are not limited to ensure that there is no need to change the
labels of the products and recognition of the validity of approvals, authorisations and issued
registration of the products (Johnson 2016). In some cases, the products need the recognitions
of the responsible person for its regulation such as authorised representation for medicines
and medical devices and responsible person for cosmetic products. That person must be able
to continue carry out the responsibility activities before exit and relocation is not required.

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Regarding to the original marketing as well as approval of the goods need to interact
with the market authorities of the UK and the EU so that they can ensure that the product will
be traced through the supply chain (Driffield and Karoglou 2016). Possible failure to this
recognition of the agreement will result to disruption. Therefore, the product needs to be
relabelled in order to maintain the traceability requirements which usually could affect the
public safety.
Avoidance of possible and unnecessary activity duplication:
The UK government recognises the relevance of market placement of a goods and
wants to shorten the disruption to the border range of goods as well as financial activity (Jim
Burtles, CMLJ and Burtles 2013). It wants to provide certainty to the goods which were
placed on the UK market before its exit.
In order to continue the commercial activities as well as placing of goods in the
markets, the business have to undertake some lengthy and complex as well as costly
procedures. These are required to ensure that the goods and the business services are
complying with the Union Legislation also production requirements (Kee and Nicita 2017).
An EU recognised organization will examine the products whether they are produced
according to the good manufacturing practice and submit the data to the respective authority.
The validity of compliance must be recognised by the Withdrawal Agreement. This
must be recognised irrespective of places, for full time period and overlooking the type of the
product.
The UK government wants to keep away from unnecessary problematic transfer of the
activities between the UK and the EU governments (Müller, Kudrna and Falkner 2014).
Therefore, the UK government wants to propose that in any case of compliance activities
identified through the agreement, the business an authority must be continuing the ongoing

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actions for the relevant goods or types of goods for both the UK and EU markets and these
activities must take place in their locations as at the withdrawal date.
In any case, there can be obligations by the assessment bodies, after they assess the
quality of the product. The UK advices that they can continue fulfilling that obligation
regarding that particular product for life time (Sampson et al. 2016). The government
recognises that both the authorities must be confident that these assessment bodies will be
capable to carry out these kind of activities.
As mentioned previously, the many products must undergo assessment and submit
their registration to work according to compliance activity and ensure that the products meet
the requirements of the product legislation. These assessments can be time limited or valid
for full product life time.
The government aims to ensure that these approvals, authorizations, registrations and
certificates must be continued to be recognised valid by the both markets of EU and UK.
Market surveillance and goods legislation:
After the products are placed in the markets, it is necessary of the authorities to trace
the products through the distribution chain. After which the surveillance authority will be
able to take action to the non-compliant products.
The failure of surveillance that support oversight and enforcement validity of the
goods will bring disruption as well as uncertainty to the consumers and goods (Lea 2017).
The agreement mentions about the continuous surveillance of products in the markets for its
traceability. It encompasses a wide rage which includes
 the product’s traceability in food chain
 the authorisation holders need to reports against the adverse reactions of the
medicines available in the markets

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 the market authorities must be able to exchange information about the unsafe goods
available in the market.
The agreement must clarify the process to conduct these activities. For all the services
and goods under the coverage of the agreement, the assessment bodies must be recognised for
fulfilling any obligations regarding the validity of the products as well as services.
Both the authorities must be confident in the competence of these bodies. The range of
mechanisms that they will follow must be of international standard.
No restriction to the provision of the services:
The UK government wants to explore the areas where the services are provided along
with goods. This paper takes account of intimate connection between the availability of the
goods the services offered with them (Swinbank 2017). Thus includes those services also
which already have been provided before the exit. Therefore, the government wants an
elaborate discussion in order to avoid any uncertainty as well as disruption.
The government also wants to analyse the trade flows that are based on collaboration
of goods and services. Services are irremovable part of the production of goods, sell,
delivery, operation and their repair. Therefore, the government has taken initiatives to outline
its position on the relevant matters on the interrelationship of goods and services and bring
them under negotiation.
Final Recommendation:
The negotiation is important for the continuation of business in undisrupted way and
close monitoring of the developments. This paper seeks to identify the possible areas which
may be affected by the new and amended legislation. It is important to consider the depth of
the effects and identify the ways through which the impacts can be mitigated and advocacy
can be directed.

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