The head of tax at bus builder Alexander Dennis has called for the UK Government to give 12 months' notice of new trade rules coming into force after a Brexit deal is agreed.
Jill Adamson was speaking on behalf of the Falkirk firm to the Lords' EU Goods Sub-Committee on Monday. She said manufacturers were still unable to plan properly for life outside the EU single market after this year because a deal had not been agreed.
Adamson said: "We cannot say whether we're prepared or not, because we do not know what we're preparing for."
Other representatives of the transport and aviation manufacturing sectors supported her call for a year's notice of changes.
Simon Brimble the head of the supply chain at car parts maker Delphi Technologies, asked: "Will we continue to have the same regulations as Europe, and... when will we know? Because we need to make preparations if that's not the case."
Brimble added: "We've taken measures within our business as we had to last year with the possibility of a hard Brexit, and we can dust those things off, but we really need the clarity to understand what we're going towards, and then we can start to make the preparations."
