the government quickly offered compensation, but two months later, jamie is still waiting. not had any yet. it s now the middle of march, and i ve not had a penny from the uk government, nothing. jamie employs 22 people. he s already worried he might have to lay some of them off. they re not only our work colleagues but our personal friends as well, you know? living in such a small rural place, you know, you see them every day, you see them every two hours, you pass them in the village all the time. 60% of his sales used to be into the eu.
the point where we say this is the worst and things will get better from here. it s summer, six months since the uk fundamentally changed the way it trades with europe. our businesses had to adapt to survive. jamie s a0% down on his pre brexit sales of shellfish. but new orders are still coming in. it s either going to be manchester or heathrow. ..on tuesday night as well because i ve got a dubai one. dubai.
acoustic guitar music plays. give that tank a wee clean out because there s a hell of a growth on it there now. on the shores of loch fyne in the west of scotland, jamie mcmillan runs a shellfish business. his industry was the first to hit a brexit bump. injanuary, he lost £90,000 worth of shellfish after it got delayed in france at the uk s new border with the eu. i m angry. my blood is boiling. there s boats tied up, there s families fishing boats tied up. we can t get our product to the eu market because of red tape, extra paperwork. it s an absolute disgrace what we ve had to go through. within days of leaving the single market, fishermen were protesting.
the brexit deal maintains tariff free trade, so there s no taxes on imports and exports. but jamie now has to pay for health certificates, transit declarations and customs fees. so, £3,673.90 to export to the eu injanuary. this is the true cost of brexit, here, this cost, and that, to me, is a tariff, that cost is a customs fee, and to my mind, that s a tariff. anybody, any government, any politician that tells me that that s not a tariff, then come to my office and see me, and they can pay it, because my business can t afford that. sorry, i m going off on a rant there. i m just. i m sick of brexit, i really am.