Looks like they half arsed parts of this deal. That certainly didn't have to be the case and lots of this stuff should've been ironed out previously, it's not like there wasn't time. [Link]

Personally, I see this as the EU not living up to their side of the deal. I saw the text of the deal said that the UK was to have a free trade deal. Tariff free, duty free but could be customs checked to ensure compliance. Then, living in the EU as I am, I find UK goods are now marked up with duties or some silly fees. Apparently the excuse is that if a good is not British then its point of origin needs to be checked.
Firstly, why would this not be the case in all EU countries? If something is Chinese, it's Chinese, not European.
Secondly, goods are not tariff and duty free if costs are being added on. Therefore, completely against the spirit of any deal.
If I were the British government I would immediately cut all access to fishing waters and add equivalent costs to all EU products. I wouldn't hesitate to do this. This is totally against the spirit of the deal that was done. And this would be seen as the EU breaking International law, if anyone had the balls to say it

This is complicated. Literally 100s of pages of rules. But if a UK seller imports goods from China then they clearly did not originate in the UK. The seller is now in an uncompetitive position if they try to sell in Holland or anywhere else in the EU.

Because the goods did not originate in the UK, so aren't covered by the trade deal, customs duty is added by the Holland government.

If OP had bought these goods in Holland (or anywhere else in the EU), he'd get them cheaper than the UK because there's no customs duties for him to pay – meaning UK sellers have basically had the whole of the EU marketplace denied them if they're selling goods from China. And China is responsible for pretty much everything – from the computer I'm typing this on, to the shoes I'm wearing, to the mug I'm drinking coffee out of.

What I've described above isn't going to "get sorted out" and fixed. This is the switching off the entire EU marketplace for UK sellers – unless they manufacture goods themselves using materials originated also in the UK or EU.

You have to admire the conviction, if not perhaps the direction of it..

So like you say, either it's not living up to the spirit of the agreement, or a lax approach to actually knowing what we've agreed to in the first place. It certainly would appear to put our businesses at an unfair disadvantage so it would be good if actin was taken or at least the situation acknowledged by government.

Or perhaps, in these lockdown days, he could at least share with us, what he had been drinking

One of the reasons I was so much in favour of a no-deal was because it would have left the UK with no choice other than to fight tooth and nail to build a new trading identity with itself.

A deal with the EU will never be truly honoured by the EU. It simply cannot allow the UK to thrive. It views Brexit as a massive threat, on a variety of levels, to its very existence. And is quite right to do so.

The EU survives not because it is popular but because there is a widespread dislike of many of the national political institutions in individual nation states. Brussels is seen as the least worse option.

Italy is the best case in point here with its Government barely surviving as things stand and a right-wing coalition just waiting in the wings to take over. Throw in the French Presidential elections next year along with the pressure growing in the East from Hungary and Poland, neither of whom are willing to play ball, and you have an EU under all kinds of pressures at the moment.

It will pull every stunt it can to scupper the UK. Has no other choice. Hence why No-Deal was always the best long term option, even if only for the kind of mindset we need in Westminster for the UK to thrive.

The EU must be seen as a hostile entity and treating accordingly. There is zero goodwill from it.