There is definitely a lot more friction at the border, particularly for stuff going from britain to the e u. One can say that so far it looks like brexet has depressed trade in goods with t he e u. So if you've noticed that stuff is taking longer to arrive in a good ages, that sort of thing, that's not necessarily because of brexet. There's a big loval issue there. It's just quite difficult to disentangle things.
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