Sentences with phrase «of the customs union»

Clear politically, because the government is committed to coming out of the customs union.

Currently the rules of the customs union prevent members from striking their own deals with other countries.

Around a dozen Conservative MPs have signalled they could join with Labour to back membership of a customs union with Brussels after Brexit.

The Government has so far suffered a series of humiliating defeats at the hands of the Lords over the EU Withdrawal Bill — with peers backing plans to remain part of a customs union with the EU and to give Parliament more say over the final Brexit deal.

Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn staked a claim to the Brexit middle ground in a speech this week, signalling support for British membership of a customs union with the EU.

As Labour has talked about the benefits of some form of customs union before, this would be an incremental not dramatic move forward.

The Shadow Industry Minister talks of keeping the benefits of the Customs Union agreements but still being free to negotiate our own trade deals.

These include continued membership of the customs union in some form, the adoption of the EU charter of fundamental rights into domestic UK law, and Chris Patten's amendment ensuring that the UK and Ireland must agree any new Irish border rules before they come into force.

On Sunday, Emily Thornberry, the shadow foreign secretary, said it seemed inevitable the UK would have to stay in some sort of customs union after Brexit.

The Shadow Industry Minister talks of keeping the benefits of the customs union agreements but still being free to negotiate our own trade deals.

Tory rebels are attempting to force the government to keep the option of a customs union with the EU on the table and have some cross-party support.

Jeremy Corbyn is preparing to hold an away day to discuss Brexit policy with key members of his shadow cabinet early this month, with some figures around him pushing for the party to accept permanent membership of a customs union after leaving the EU.

Whether that means we must reach a completely new customs agreement, become an associate member of the Customs Union in some way, or remain a signatory to some elements of it, I hold no preconceived position.

And the ECJ will rule in favour of them for the simple reason that they are not enforcing the external border of the customs union.

«In Kazakhstan, the topic of the Customs Union has turned into a symbol of Russia and all that is Russian,» Vasiliy Misnik of Almaty's Institute of Political Solutions think tank told Ekspert magazine in July.

That commitment is to maintain alignment only on «the rules of the customs union and the internal market which support North - South cooperation, the allisland economy and the protection of the 1998 Agreement.»

The name to look for, I'm told, is Stephen Hammond: if his name remains on an amendment in favour of a customs union, 15 Tory MPs will rebel, and the government will face defeat.

Here's the thing: you can't prevent a hard border outside of a customs union and single market.

Labour MPs Chuka Umunna pointed out on Sunday that countries like Norway, Iceland and Lichtenstein are part of the single market despite not being EU member states, and said Turkey is «basically» part of the customs union despite not being an EU member state.

«Any future arrangement with the EU would ideally seek to maintain the conditions of the customs union, by delivering tariff - free trade between the UK and the EU and specifically, frictionless trade and customs procedures.

These are the elements of the Customs Union that prevent us from striking our own comprehensive trade agreements with other countries.

The position of many Labour MPs hardened after the prime minister signalled last week that she plans to leave the single market and ditch key aspects of the customs union.

The issue of a customs union is a complex one, there are many different configurations - there is Turkey inside the customs union, but outside the single market, there is Norway inside the single market outside the customs union, and Switzerland outside the customs union and partially in the single market.

There is an available parliamentary majority for a different Brexit, a much softer model that starts from the economically rational base of customs union and single market membership.

But the British could find it tougher to sell their fish to the EU if there's what's called a «hard Brexit,» where the U.K. gives up full access to the single market and full access of the customs union, says Christophe Collin, technical manager of Armement Bigouden, a fishing company in Le Guilvinec, western France.

Pushing Britain out of the Customs Union will trigger significant price increases at the supermarket check out.

«Subject, of course to negotiations, remaining in a form of customs union with the EU is a possible end destination for Labour,» he said.

Thread: There are members of the Single Market who are not members of the EU; Turkey is basically part of the Customs Union but not in the EU

«Full membership of the customs union prevents us from negotiating our own trade deals» outside the EU, she acknowledged — so she did not want Britain to be bound by the common commercial policy and the common external tariff.

At a time when the U.K. is negotiating its future trade relationship with the European Union (EU) as it prepares to leave the 28 - country economic and political bloc, focus is being placed on whether the U.K. could stay in some sort of customs union.

Long - Bailey explained that Labour wanted to retain the benefits of the customs union and also have the ability to negotiate new trade deals.

But that is the consequence of ruling out the option of a customs union, which this government has done.

Corbyn announced in February 2018 that Labour wanted the UK to be a permanent member of a customs union with the EU after Brexit - but Smith said this wasn't enough.

She spoke of «associate membership» of the customs union in her Lancaster House speech last year.

If an agreement can't be reached for the UK to be part of a customs union with the EU, then customs duty may be charged on the import of goods from the EU, which is not recoverable, so would be an actual additional cost for UK retailers.

According to the BBC's political editor Laura Kuenssberg, May will say Britain is willing to pay 20 billion euros ($ 24 billion) to the EU during the transition period but only if the U.K. has access to the singles market and some form of customs union.

«You can be part of the customs union, like Turkey is, but that means you can't sign your own free trade deals, because you're part of a customers union.

We should like to have Britain still in the Single Market, Britain still a member of the economic area, Britain member of a customs union, and so on.»

During her Lancaster House Brexit speech in January she spoke of becoming an «associate member» of the Customs Unions.

My own discussions with Honda in Swindon confirmed to me the importance of membership of the customs union.

The Customs Bill and the Trade Bill are both stuck in Parliament and can't move forward until Mrs May conjures up a deal with the EU on Britain's membership of the customs union.

The trouble with this policy is that the government also wants frictionless trade with Europe - something which relies on membership of the customs union.

This would appear to rule out being part of a customs union.

Membership of the customs union is widely considered a prerequisite to a soft border yet precludes the negotiation of separate trade arrangements outside the institutional framework of the European Union.

Neither in Brussels nor in Dublin, nor in soft - Brexit circles in Westminster, can anyone see how that frictionless border can be achieved without some form of customs union — one that ever more people who vote Tory say would amount to a Brexit betrayal.

The PM offered another broad restatement of the government's Brexit aims and another attack on Labour, who she accused of going back on their manifesto promise to come out of a customs union.

Since reports emerged on Sunday that Downing Street is prepared to give way on membership of the customs union, leading Brexiters have been mounting a fierce rearguard defence on radio and TV stations.

Manufacturing businesses like Honda, whose main European production centre is in Swindon, are clear that membership of the customs union is essential to their business.

Manufacturers like Honda currently use 25 % of components originating from the UK, but with politicians threatening to take the UK out of the customs union, it would be required to seek new suppliers in the UK within less than 18 months to reach the minimum requirement for tariff - free export.

For a start, the EEA does not include membership of the customs union.