UK Unveils Plans for Streamlined Post-Brexit Trade Checks With EU

UK Unveils Plans for Streamlined Post-Brexit Trade Checks With EU
Freight lorries queuing at the port of Dover in Kent, England, on Dec. 18, 2021. Gareth Fuller/PA
Alexander Zhang
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The British government has set out plans for how post-Brexit border checks will work, which have been repeatedly delayed since the UK officially withdrew from the bloc more than two years ago.

Britain left the EU’s single market in January 2021, but the government has delayed full implementation of border controls on multiple occasions because of worries about port disruption and COVID-19, and more recently the risk of adding to a cost-of-living crisis.