British officials devise third option for post-Brexit customs, BBC reports

[webfact]

British officials devise third option for post-Brexit customs, BBC reports

 

Activists with the group 'Borders Against Brexit' protest in the border town of Dundalk, Ireland, June 28, 2018. REUTERS/Clodagh Kilcoyne

 

LONDON (Reuters) - British officials have come up with a third model for handling customs after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union, the BBC reported on Monday.

 

Details of the proposal have not been revealed publicly but senior ministers will discuss it at Chequers, the prime minister's country retreat, on Friday, the BBC said.

 

Prime Minister Theresa May is struggling to find agreement on post-Brexit customs arrangements so that she can take it into negotiations with the EU as the clock ticks down to Britain's scheduled exit in March 2019.

 

May has ruled out Britain staying in a customs union with the bloc - to the dismay of many big international companies - and says her government is working on two possible solutions to minimize delays at Britain’s ports.

 

The shape of the Brexit customs deal will define the trading relationship of the world's fifth largest economy for decades to come and major companies have called for a simple system that does not silt up the arteries of trade.

 

So far, May's advisers have come up with two options.

 

Under the first option, Britain would collect tariffs on imports from outside the bloc on the EU’s behalf. The second option, known as "max fac", or maximum facilitation, would implement a technology-based plan.

 

A Downing Street spokesman declined to comment on the BBC report.

 

(Reporting by Guy Faulconbridge; editing by Michael Holden)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-07-02

[dunroaming]

May stood up again in parliament and just spouted the same rhetoric.  She is still trying to please both sides and is failing.  She really has to come up with something workable but that will be shouted down by  JRM, BJ,MG and LF and their cronies.  She has been so long up the creek without a paddle, it is hard to imagine that she well ever get out of it. 

[Baerboxer]

7 hours ago, dunroaming said:

May stood up again in parliament and just spouted the same rhetoric.  She is still trying to please both sides and is failing.  She really has to come up with something workable but that will be shouted down by  JRM, BJ,MG and LF and their cronies.  She has been so long up the creek without a paddle, it is hard to imagine that she well ever get out of it. 

 

She finding out the hard way that trying to be friends with everyone simply doesn't work. 

 

And she doesn't seem to be a quick learner. A leader who ain't leading.

[mfd101]

She needs to call everyone's bluff (at least amongst the Tories). "Here's the deal. Agree it now or I resign/call an election."

[Henryford]

Theresa the Appeaser has brought this on herself by stuffing the Cabinet with Remoaner traitors. BREXIT is going to happen, people need to accept that and work towards the best deal for Britain, not the EUSSR.

[Chomper Higgot]

4 hours ago, Henryford said:

Theresa the Appeaser has brought this on herself by stuffing the Cabinet with Remoaner traitors. BREXIT is going to happen, people need to accept that and work towards the best deal for Britain, not the EUSSR.

Traitors you say.

 

Disgraceful.

[The Renegade]

23 hours ago, webfact said:

British officials devise third option for post-Brexit customs, BBC reports

Why are you wasting your time ?

 

Unless it contains.

 

1. Remaining under the thumb of Brussels

 

2. Being subservient to the ECJ

 

3. Will continue to hand £ Billions over to Brussels.

 

It will be rejected out of hand by the EU.

 

Time to grow up, open your eyes, grow a pair and get on with leaving.

[Chomper Higgot]

 

Edited July 3, 2018 by Chomper Higgot

[Henryford]

2 hours ago, Chomper Higgot said:

Traitors you say.

 

Disgraceful. 

Yes they are disgraceful