This is interesting but worth looking at the respondents of this survey

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69 of mostly FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 companies.

Basically, companies with all the resources in the world who can afford to hire plenty of external help - consultants, lawyers and advisors in all the relevant areas.

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Meanwhile, for SMEs things are not necessarily that easy

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There might be a point here about how disruptions and changes affect different types of companies: how it disproportionately affects smaller companies with fewer resources.

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One example, many SMEs found it difficult to find a customs broker.

Service providers dropping their existing smaller clients for larger, more profitable ones.

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Which is understandable but it& #39;s much easier to not experience significant disruptions to trade with a good broker on your side.

And the ability to pay for their services and absorb that cost.

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