A reminder: an effective border force..customs & (bio security) market standards..deters smugglers. There is none between NI & IE as was agreed to move it back from there to between GB & NI. The remaining EU26 not just IE need their customs & market standards territory protecting
If intending to introduce universal lower standards & tariffs to your bordering market less so an issue.
However non market standards goods can be legally transited across higher standards & customs territories to your market..*Effective* border force controls is the deterrence.
However non market standards goods can be legally transited across higher standards & customs territories to your market..*Effective* border force controls is the deterrence.
To maintain trade flows the controls needs to match demand. GB has had insufficient capacity to meet new demands for 11 months now. It has prioritised EU inbound "flow over control" owing to EU dependency, but still not enough to prevent strangled (round trip) supply chains.
From 1/1/22 the EU inbound "controls" will be (or will they?) notched up . Full EU inbound "controls" due July 2022 (18 months after TCA brexit that UK wanted & got)...but UK still has insufficient capacity to control this EU needed trade flow. "Control or flow" ? Gov must choose
In the meantime smugglers continue to smile..alongside EU legitimate suppliers given advantage over GB counterparts as UK Gov policy.
Other WTO members the opposite...
Truss, when trade sec knew all this (or at least her civil servants did). That was June 2020.
Tick tock.
Other WTO members the opposite...
Truss, when trade sec knew all this (or at least her civil servants did). That was June 2020.
Tick tock.
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