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Logistics UK estimates the UK could unlock about £11.7bn of additional output by restoring 2019 “trade intensity,” roughly £400 per household. 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Sebag Montefiore We are entering anintense new era for control of the Middle East  \nInset:Neetu Goyal Tiwari,Mala and Bipin Patel from Coventry,and nurse Sarada Simkhada from Dartford  \n# EXCLUSIVE\n\nThe true cost ofBrexit to Britishtrade:£11.7bn  \nDamning findings by freight firms show annual lost revenue ofE400 per household compared to 2019-as new survey reveals  \n98.2 per cent of businesses want to rejoin the EU single market  \nBritain is still counting the cost-and  \npaying the price-of Brexit  \nhe repercussions of both manmade and naturaldisasters can last for years,decades,even centuries-and,it must be said,the same goes for Britain'sdeparture from the European Union.  \nTo adapt the popular quip,Brexit is the gift that keeps on taking.The economic and diplomatic harms inflicted on the country-self-inflicted,in truth-were not one-offs.In many respects,theywere a sort of slow and ceaseless process of self-harm,  \nexacerbating themselves year on year as the country loses tradeand jobs,and sees its international influence outside the blocgradually,inexorably diminish.  \nThe harms are no longer so often headline news;ironically,much less so these days than when they were merely ahypothetical prospect a decade ago and,wrongly,dubbed“Project Fear”.  \nIn many ways,they are invisible.We cannot see the factories thatwere never built because the UK ceased to be an attractivedestination for foreign direct investment.Nor the researcherswho decided to pursue their work elsewhere.  \nBritish leadership in Europe's counsels,notably promoting freetrade and liberalised markets,has long since disappeared-but  \nthe absence doesn't excite the media.The lorries that no longercarry their exports across the English Channel cannot be seenand pointed to as evidence of this colossal failure of policy.  \nBut the impact on trade,exports and jobs is nonetheless  \ncontinuing,and is real enough.It is apparent most of all to thoseon the economic frontline,represented by Logistics UK.  \nIt is their members who are valiantly negotiating their waythrough bureaucratic obstacles and getting as many shipmentsas they can through the post-Brexit tangle of biometric entry-exitsystems,rules of origin,phytosanitary controls and otherpreviously unnecessary barriers to trade.Among very manypromises made by Boris Johnson that never quite materialised,itturns out there are indeed some formidable“non-tariff”barriersto trade after all.  \nThe latest news from the export front is as dispiriting as ever foran economy desperate for economic growth.The UK couldunlock around E11.7bn in additional economic output,  \nequivalent to around E400 per household,by restoring what istermed “trade intensity”to its 2019 level,according to freshanalysis by Logistics UK.“Trade intensity”is merely jargon forhow open an economy is to the outside world.In the long run,the more that a nation's trade grows-competitively pricedexports and imports -the richer the country becomes.  \nConsumers and businesses benefit from cheaper imports,goodsand services;exporters can find new customers -and the EU isstill the most prosperous single market for goods,energy andservices on the planet.This is what has been lost in trade alone,and Logistics UK have produced a realistic estimate of it.  \nBut that harm to trade is only a portion of the total economiccosts.The slump in investment and thus,productivity,wagesand living standards far into the future has also beencumulatively grievous,and continues to grow.  \nAltogether,most estimates put the wider loss to GDP at at least 4per cent a year,about E100bn-more like E4,000 per  \nhousehold.Or,looked at another way,a loss of about E40bn inlost tax revenues.  \nBroadly speaking,that would go a long way to properly fundsocial care as well as the defence of the realm.We'd have morepeople in work,and fewer in poverty.Many of the anguishedarguments and painful choices of today 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