This is Business Daily with me Vivienne Nunes. Today we're checking back in with Brexit. It's just over a year since the UK's trading relationship with the European Union fundamentally changed. For 12 months, the UK has been outside the rules of the trading bloc, made up of 27 member states. So what has that meant for small business

owners here in Britain, wanting to export to the EU? Having all this additional strain to it

is not helpful, especially when there was a system that worked really, really well.

We do get some very angry customers. They say things like, well, this is what you get for having Brexit,

or you better talk to that Boris Johnson,

because this is ridiculous that you can't supply to the EU.

Life Outside, the European Union.

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Cast your mind back to December 31st, 2020.

Just after 11 o'clock in London and midnight in Brussels the moment one era ends and a new one begins. The UK has now left EU trading rules and welcomes in new regulations on travel, trade, immigration and security. After

nearly 50 years, a new relationship has begun. I spent the evening reporting from a chilly

promenade near the Port of Dover. Under a dark sky, I watched a ferry set sail across the channel.

On board were lorries loaded with goods ready for export from the UK.

It was the last chance for British cargo to make the journey

from within the single market and customs union.

There was a slight delay for this ferry leaving.

Perhaps they were trying to squeeze in as many trucks as they could.

After this, it will be a very new regime.

The Brexit deal agreed to buy London and Brussels

has meant there have been no new tariffs on goods traded between the UK and EU.

But new checks have been required at the border.

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