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 enable the temporary customs arrangement to function. This will mean applying the EU’s common external tariff (CET) at the...