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guests please enjoy responsibly. Hello and welcome to Money Talks. I'm Richard Cockett, the business editor of the

Britain section of the Economist. How exactly Britain the appear willing to leave a final decision until the last possible minute.

But the companies that have to ship stuff to the other side of the world,

Brexit arrived early.

A container ship can take up to six weeks to sail from Britain to South Korea or Japan.

The bare moths that set off from Felixstowe docks today and tomorrow will be sailing into the unknown.

They might arrive in a post-Brexit world.

UK Ministers are hurrying around to sign new trade deals with other countries or continuity agreements

post Brexit with those countries that currently enjoy trade deals with the EU.

But this doesn't help businesses now. They are trying

to operate in the face of enormous uncertainty. On this week's money talks we

are asking the questions how are UK businesses preparing for Brexit?

What plans have they already put in place?

And how much will it cost them?

Well, we are saying and advising companies to do is to take the minimal steps needed to mitigate against impact that are truly business critical, that are truly

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