Thanks for that. I'm not quite sure who these 50,000 people are actually being employed by: the article talks of most of them being "intermediaries" whatever that means.
However, whoever is going to be paying them it will be incredibly expensive, and will either be costing the taxpayer; or else damage the competitive edge of British industry when it tries to sell abroad. I suspect that a lot of small firms may simply give up on the idea of exporting, it is just being made too difficult and too expensive.
When it comes to this government, the lunatics really have taken over the asylum.
I work for HMRC (please don`t hate me for that please ) and before Christmas I was involved in training some of the new entrants on the new Customs Regime post Brexit.The vast majority will be HMRC customs agents, Gove is on record as saying tens of thousands. In any case, it doesn't really matter if they're civil servants or working in industry, it represents a huge increase in paperwork and people to fill that paperwork in.
Some of the staff involved are current HMRC staff, but the vast majority are agency staff recruited via Brook Street Agency on 6 month contracts.
The agency staff are getting paid more than me, but thats because they have to work 8 hr shifts (8am to 4pm, 4pm to 12am and 12am to 8am ) to process the imports/exports.