After the 2016 votes to leave the European Union, there have been many parliamentary discussions about what should be included within the Brexit deal. There have been several drafts of the agreement made since then but it seems as if the most recent deal will be the last one made and will be the one to be signed by Britain and the EU.
This will include deals on international trading across all of the European countries which have been decreased then what they will be but have worked out a fair cost for the amount that will be traded each year. This will restrict the amount of trading we will be able to do within the EU but will still allow businesses to gain resources and trade products and materials from factories with a decrease in trading amounts and prices depending on the sector they fall in. There have been many reports saying that the government “Wasted a month” on this agreement as they were not talking about what should be included in the deal and had not written a new draft since the one before this one last year.
There are many businesses that are worried about how this deal could affect them with many of these worried businesses being small national traders who buy materials who have them imported from countries within the European Union. I spoke to two small businesses to get their opinions on how this would affect them. the first one was Bish Bash pot, I spoke to one of their workers who requested I didn’t use her name stated that “it would affect how we would get some of our materials for the products as we can just receive them from other companies across Britain”. I also spoke to one business in Cardiff, a tattoo parlour called Frontier, I spoke to one of the artists who said “we would be heavily affected as we import a lot of our colours and equipment from Germany” with the Brexit deal happening this will affect many businesses small and large.This would cause these businesses to review their agreements with each other as to how much they will be able to buy causing the smaller businesses to pay more for the same amount of materials or pay the same amount for slightly less, neither which are ideal but could cause them to strike deals with other suppliers.
The deal will continue to be reviewed but Theresa May hopes this will be the deal that could be signed in the early months of 2019.