Automotive agencies expect a wave of task cuts if uk exits singles market
Last Mon September 14, 2020 BST 04. 36
British and European car manufacturers have warned of “catastrophic” losses of one hundred billion pounds in the industry over the next five years if an agreement is not reached with the Brexit industry.
While industry negotiations are just a thread for a policy on the EU withdrawal agreement, industry leaders across Europe have predicted a wave of job losses in factories and their suppliers if the UK leaves the singles market.
In a set signed through 23 associations in the automotive industry, they say that the calculated effect of 110 billion euros (one hundred billion pounds) adds to the estimated charge of the Covid pandemic at one hundred billion euros.
“These figures paint a grim picture of the devastation that would remain in a Brexit without an agreement. The surprise of price lists and other industry barriers would exacerbate the damage already caused by a global pandemic and recession, putting businesses and livelihoods at risk. “mike Hawes, executive director of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders in the UK, said.
Hildegard Muller, president of the German car association, the VDA, said some corporations would be at risk if cross-border industry affected tariffs.
“This would compromise tightly connected price chains and would in all likelihood make them unprofitable. Our member corporations have more than a hundred production sites in the UK. We hope that the EU and the UK will continue their close partnership, with a broad flexible industrial agreement. “
European Automobile Manufacturers Association Director Eric-Mark Huitema said he “absolutely will have to have an ambitious industrial agreement between the EU and the UK until January. “
Jaguar Land Rover: 1,100 jobs on 15 June : the UK’s largest automaker has fired 1,100 contracts at the Merseyside and West Midlands plants.
Johnson Matthey – 2,500 jobs June 11: The chemical company, one of the leading catalytic car converters, plans to internationalize 2,500 layoffs over the next 3 years, or 17% of its workforce.
Bentley: 1,000 Jobs June 5: The Crewe-based luxury automaker plans to cut its track by nearly a quarter through 4,200, cutting 1,000 jobs through a voluntary layoff plan.
Aston Martin Lagonda – 500 jobs four of June: Warwickshire-based luxury car manufacturer, even before the pandemic, has announced 500 layoffs.
Spectators: 1,500 jobs June 4: The car dealership chain announced plans to eliminate 1,500 jobs and close 12 dealerships days after car showrooms were allowed to reopen in England.
McLaren: May 1,200 jobs: McLaren Group, Formula One owner and supercar manufacturer, eliminated 1,200 jobs while struggling to save money.
JCB – 900 jobs May 15: Excavator manufacturer JCB said in May that there were up to 950 jobs after the mid-call reduction of its machines due to the closure of the coronavirus.
For more than two years, the automotive industry has consistently warned of the main position of disagreeing with the automotive industry, which employs 14. 6 million others directly and in factories, component supplies, engineering, design and marketing and sales.
They hope that this new warning from the combined forces of EU and UK leaders will make either party look beyond their political differences and succeed in an industrial agreement.
Talks on brexit continue this week, however, on Sunday, Irish Foreign Secretary Simon Coveney said it would be difficult to succeed in an industry agreement if the UK government passed a law allowing opposing parts of the withdrawal agreement.
The automotive industry fears that a collapse in negotiations could result in punitive price lists: 10% in car sales and 22% in vans and trucks, but also jobs and sales revenues that underpin more than 60 billion euros of investment in technical innovation and year of study, such as Sigrid de Vries, the Secretary General of the European Association of Automobile Suppliers (CLEPA) Array said it would make it “the largest personal investor in R
Its most recent estimates recommend that production grades would fall into 3 million sets in the UK and EU over the next five years in a settlement agreement, as well as a relief of 3. 6 million annual sets of 18. 6 million produced according to the year due to coronavirus. .
The National Market Bill aims to implement industry-related regulations and regulations in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
Some rules, for example on food security or air quality, which were established in the past through EU agreements, will now be controlled through decentralised administrations or through Westminster. all UK nations, even if their criteria differ locally.
This, the government says, aims in part to ensure that foreign investors have in the UK as a whole, convinced that the criteria and regulations are consistent.
The Scottish government has criticized it as a Westminster “takeover”, and the Welsh government has expressed fear that this will lead to a race to the bottom. If one of the countries that make up the United Kingdom lowers its standards, for example, in the import of chlorinated chicken, the other 3 countries will also have to settle for chlorinated chicken.
It is even more debatable because one of its main objectives is to give ministers the strength to adopt regulations even if they are contrary to the withdrawal agreement with the EU under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
The text does not disguise its intention, stating that the powers contained in the invoice “take effect without prejudice to any applicable foreign or national law with which they may be incompatible or incompatible”.
The bill surpassed its first hurdle in parliament with 77 votes, despite some Conservative MPs.
Martin Belam and Owen Bowcott
At some other event, the Unite union warned of the border chaos in Britain unless “decisive action is taken in incomplete computer systems to deal with post-Brexit customs,” as well as plans, revealed last week, for 29 fleets of trucks across the country to deal with delays imaginable in Dover.
Agreement or non-agreement, truckers carrying auto parts and other products face a fine of three hundred euros if they do not have the proper documentation and finished to cross the Channel.
Unite said it is “totally unacceptable” to punish drivers “who are not guilty for preparing customs declarations for their shipments. “
The union’s national leader, Adrian Jones, said border chaos would also have a maximum charge only for drivers, but also for local authorities, who, “less than 4 months by the end,” still know the maximum truck fleet locations.