{"id":7861,"date":"2021-01-15T15:42:36","date_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/?p=7861"},"modified":"2021-01-15T15:42:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-15T15:42:45","slug":"how-were-dealing-with-brexit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/how-were-dealing-with-brexit\/","title":{"rendered":"How\u00a0we\u2019re\u00a0dealing with Brexit\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Stuart Wilkinson, Sales and Marketing Director\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

Wilkinson Containers <\/span>is <\/span>a bridge between packaging manufacturers and our customers<\/span>.\u00a0 We provide our customers with\u00a0<\/span>the confidence<\/span>\u00a0that they can secure the packaging formats they need within five working days \u2013 rather than the four-to-eight-week lead time\u00a0<\/span>which would be the standard norm for a\u00a0<\/span>packaging manufacturer.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This means that when it comes to\u00a0<\/span>Brexit, P. Wilkinson Containers has had to be ultra-prepared.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\"How<\/p>\n

One thing we\u2019ve benefitted from over last 18 mon<\/span>ths is a number of Brexit \u2018dress\u00a0<\/span>rehearsals\u2019<\/span>. Each time the Brexit deadline\u00a0<\/span>h<\/span>as loomed<\/span>\u00a0such as last year<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>when we were planning to leave the EU<\/span>\u00a0before an extension was secured, we made<\/span>\u00a0sure that our warehouse was\u00a0<\/span>full<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>and our most popular products were in stock<\/span>.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We hold both general and bespoke stock at our site in\u00a0<\/span>Bermondsey<\/span>\u00a0and we have a responsibility to continue to supply our customers with what they need, in turn helping the wheels of industry turning.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through our experience we were able to anticipate some of the upcoming difficulties and increased our stock levels of our core lines. This same experience came\u00a0<\/span>into effect<\/span>\u00a0during the pandemic when we were able to \u2018pick up\u2019 extra stock<\/a> from some of our suppliers in Northern Italy and Spain before they entered the lockdown.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019<\/span>ve<\/span>\u00a0even invested in products where we did not have a guaranteed order to ensure supply was uninterrupted for our customers.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Ahead of this year\u2019s Brexit deadline, w<\/span>e\u2019ve been picking up stock levels<\/span>\u00a0again<\/span>\u00a0and have spent lots of time understanding how new import rules<\/span>\u00a0from Europe<\/span>\u00a0will affect our b<\/span>u<\/span>siness.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

As part of the EU<\/span>,<\/span>\u00a0we benefitted from free movement of goods, but now there will be more paperwork as products enter new tax tariffs. Essentially, there\u2019s paperwork when goods leave the country of origin an<\/span>d then more when it enters the UK.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

We\u2019re finding that there\u00a0<\/span>just\u00a0<\/span>isn\u2019t<\/span>\u00a0enough people at the borders to process this paperwork which is caused by a lack of understanding \u2013 and that\u2019s what has\u00a0<\/span>led<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>to delays at the borders.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, it\u2019s our job to manage the new import process so that our customers don\u2019t have to and have\u00a0<\/span>peace<\/span>\u00a0of mind that when they need additional packaging,<\/span>\u00a0it\u2019s here waiting for them.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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By Stuart Wilkinson, Sales and Marketing Director\u00a0 Wilkinson Containers is a bridge between packaging manufacturers and our customers.\u00a0 We provide our customers with\u00a0the confidence\u00a0that they can secure the packaging formats they need within five working days \u2013 rather than the four-to-eight-week lead time\u00a0which would be the standard norm for a\u00a0packaging manufacturer.\u00a0 This means that when […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7861\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pwcon.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}