Sentences with phrase «to leave the customs union»

Our insistence of leaving the customs union turns a country that should be our main ally against us.

We moreover can not preserve an open Irish border (and, indeed, ensure simple customs procedures) while leaving the customs union.

It's about leaving the customs union, which is a frankly insane thing to do.

If, as seems likely, the UK leaves the customs union, those remaining in business will then be hit by tariffs on their exports.

«If the United Kingdom doesn't leave the customs union — which apparently is still an open question in Whitehall - then he is heading a department without purpose because he can not negotiate all these apparently magnificent trade deals with Papua New Guinea and Tanzania and China and India and Australia.

We will also leave the Customs Union, covering trade with countries like Turkey.

And when Greg Clark's suggestion that failing to striking that arrangement would cost jobs was put to her, she replied that the Business Secretary backed leaving the customs union.

«[This] includes leaving the customs union, an intrinsic part of the EU.

Leaving the customs union without a new trade deal with the EU in place would see the UK default to WTO terms.

Second, it would allow freedom to develop trade deals with the rest of the world since the UK would no longer be tied to the Common Trade policy (though this would involve leaving the Customs Union).

Elsewhere in the speech, May promised control of laws, by leaving the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice (ECJ); control of immigration, by leaving the single market; rights of EU nationals, despite failing to guarantee at that point that they would not be deported; new trade deals, by leaving the customs union; and free trade with European markets, by pretending that nothing had happened.

Officials defending these plans say that leaving the EU means leaving the customs union.

These position papers were poorly thought out and in some cases completely unworkable, such as the idea to have no hard border between Northern Ireland and the Republic despite the UK leaving the customs union.

Britain isn't leaving the customs union... which is good.

But today Mr Corbyn was forced to slap down another shadow cabinet minister after they went much further and said Britain should also leave the customs union.

Theresa May can still convince MPs to back leaving the customs union, a minister claimed today amid reports the Prime Minister could back down.

Includes leaving the customs union, an intrinsic part of the EU.

Companies that rely on materials from across Europe in their supply chain, such as Baileys producer Diageo, may suffer through delays at border points as a result of the «additional volume of trade needed to be checked once we leave the customs union».

The car industry is heavily reliant on tariff - free trade across the EU and leaving the customs union would disrupt supply chains by requiring time - consuming checks and paperwork for components that currently pass across open borders.

So much for the Brexiteers» promise of a bonanza of free trade deals once we have left the customs union.

One of those former advisers, Nick Timothy voted for Brexit and was passionate about the need to leave the customs union.

The UK wants to leave the customs union, with its common external tariff, for one reason alone: so it can sign glittering new deals with major economies like India.

There will be damage to both sides from any decision to leave the customs union.

By Peter Crosskey Despite the changing tone of the Brexit debate since last month's election, Britain is still intending to leave the customs union.

After a weekend of newspaper rumours about threats to Theresa May from a «dream team» of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Jacob Rees - Mogg, No. 10 announced that the UK was «categorically» leaving the customs union.

It has finally recognised that leaving the customs union and single market will create a flurry of new tariffs and standards checks at Dover and Calais, which will bring traffic to a grinding halt.

Research by Raoul Ruparel, who later became an adviser to Brexit secretary David Davis, estimates that leaving the customs union would reduce GDP by between one and 1.2 % in the long term.

Leaving the customs union and the single market just to do a trade deal with Trump is like giving up a three course dinner in the hope of a packet of crisps.

Now suppose the UK leaves the customs union, and negotiates a trade deal with the US, which allows for free trade in cars between the UK and the US.

He states dutifully: «Before the referendum we all agreed on what leaving the EU logically must entail: leaving the customs union and the single market, leaving the penumbra of the ECJ; taking back control of borders, cash, laws.

LONDON — Jeremy Corbyn opened a fresh Brexit split inside Labour today after distancing himself from a call by his own Shadow International Trade Secretary for Britain to leave the customs union.

This clashes rather messily with Rees - Mogg's repeated insistence that leaving the customs union would bring in lots of cheap food from outside Europe to help poorer Brits.

For manufacturers like Honda, leaving the customs union is set to disrupt their «just in time» supply chain by requiring time - consuming checks and paperwork as components pass across currently open borders.

Britain must leave the customs union and convince the EU to create a special arrangement with us allowing us to rejoin.

Gardiner either does not understand or does not care about the devastating impact that leaving the customs union would have on our manufacturing industry.

The British plan is to leave the customs union and then create a new customs union which does exactly the same thing as the one it just left.

But specifically why are we leaving the customs union?

But Fox's admission that trade deals aren't what's required to boost British exports is rather surprising, given this is the whole reason we're leaving the customs union.

It's a sign of how quickly the decision to leave the customs union is toxifying relations with the UK's closest ally.

The sole advantage of leaving the customs union - signing your own trade deals - seems undeliverable regardless of our membership of it.

If it leaves the customs union those products will have to go through insanely complex country of origin checks and pay sometimes exorbitant tariffs, both on the final product and its component parts ahead of production.

Johnson said Britain wanted to maintain access to the European single market, but added: «We'll probably have to leave the customs union, but it is a question that will be discussed.

Meanwhile 48 % supported a hard Brexit, whereby the UK «leaves the single market, leaves the customs union and gains full control over all aspects of immigration».

In January, commenting on a report that suggested 400,000 jobs could be created if we left the customs union, Gardiner said the idea was «pure diversion.»

His comments raised eyebrows, because they are at odds with official Labour policy and the position of Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer, which is it leave customs union membership on the table.