Overseas Trade: Republic of Ireland
(asked on 11th December 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Exiting the European Union :
To ask Her Majesty's Government how they propose to safeguard trade between (1) Fishguard, (2) Pembroke, and (3) Holyhead, and Ireland following Brexit.
Answered by
Lord Callanan
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
In assessing our options for a new customs arrangement with the EU, the Government will be guided by what delivers the greatest economic advantage to the UK, and by three strategic objectives:
Ensuring UK-EU trade is as frictionless as possible;
Avoiding a ‘hard border’ between Ireland and Northern Ireland; and
Establishing an independent international trade policy.
The Government’s Future Partnership Paper on customs, published in August 2017, set out two approaches to our future customs relationship with the EU that most closely meet these objectives.