The UK Government has published a technical note on a proposal for a temporary customs arrangement as part of a backstop solution that would apply to customs arrangements between the UK and EU and avoid a hard border between Northern Ireland and Ireland. This arrangement would see:
- The elimination of tariffs, quotas, rules of origin and customs processes including declarations on all UK-EU trade;
- The UK outside the scope of the Common Commercial Policy (CCP), except where it is required to…