NEWS\\\ ASM walks away from ‘unworkable’ Ulster Brexit plan


Agency Sector Management (ASM) says it will not support HMRC’s CHIEF replacement, CDS, for shipments in and out of Northern Ireland. The customs clearance soſt ware fi rm cites an unacceptable level of risk and the lack of a workable contingency plan or user support. In a letter to HMRC chief


executive and fi rst permanent secretary, Jim Harra, ASM said


there was no realistic chance of releasing a CDS compliant solution,


training users and


helpdesk staff before the end of March 2021. Any release would carry the risk of


signifi cant


reputational damage. ASM chairman Peter


MacSwiney told FBJ that he had taken the decision not


to


support CDS because the system was incomplete and persisting with it “wouldn’t be doing our


Portico helps clear box backlog


Portsmouth-based handler Portico has moved its fi rst empty containers for a global shipping line - a shipment of CMA CGM boxes loaded onto BG Freight vessel, MV Elbstrom, bound for Europe.


With the UK currently awash


with empty containers due to problems


at Felixstowe and


other deepsea ports, Portico is working with global shipping lines to get them back to where they are needed.


users any favours”. Following extensive meetings


with community service providers, HMRC agreed that CDS would be introduced UK- wide by the end of 2021, an achievable though “challenging” timescale. When it was announced that


CDS was the intended solution for delivery of the NI Protocol


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and would be required to go live 12 months earlier, on 1 January 2021, ASM carried out a review of its readiness. It established that with an amount of de- scoping it was possible that a rudimentary solution could be available for supplementary import declarations towards the end of 2020. But there was no possibility of inventory linked import or export functionality being available as there were, and remain signifi cant gaps in both the community service e providers’ and the core


HMRC CDS system. There are still blocking issues on export declarations, revenue creating import declarations and export dual running (inventory linking etc. when both CHIEF and CDS are in use). ASM also has signifi cant reservations over the technical


support that HMRC


can provide. Peter MacSwiney said


the decision to use CDS to control Northern Ireland trade, even though its nationwide introduction had already been pushed back was made on the


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grounds that it was the only system that was compliant with the EU’s Union Customs Code (UCC). However, he said: “That seems a rather poor reason for doing it.” Meanwhile,


with the UK


having published its own separate customs tariff , there might be opportunities for smugglers to exploit any diff erences between UK and EU duties that existed, and these loopholes might


increase


the UK signed separate trade


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