> One industry group said the UK’s customs authority, HM Revenue and Customs, were still carrying out customs checks on goods arriving into the North from Britain under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the post-Brexit trading rules covering goods arriving into the North from Britain.
> “A lot of people thought that they would just stop everything. The advice to industry is that to keep doing what you have been doing until we know more,” said Seamus Leheny, Northern Ireland policy manager for the industry group Logistics UK.
> There was confusion within businesses transporting goods through the ports following the unilateral announcement from Mr Poots with the North’s border control posts remaining open.
> “It has been relatively quiet but it appears that they are still staffed. I don’t really know the nature of the checks that are taking place and who is doing them. Guidance from Defra and Daera is that you keep doing the paperwork as you are meant to,” said Mr Leheny.
> He urged Brussels not to react “rashly” to Mr Poots’s move but to seek a resolution through ongoing discussions with the UK government where a solution is being sought to the dispute between London and Brussels over the operation of the protocol.
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> One industry group said the UK’s customs authority, HM Revenue and Customs, were still carrying out customs checks on goods arriving into the North from Britain under the Northern Ireland Protocol, the post-Brexit trading rules covering goods arriving into the North from Britain.
> “A lot of people thought that they would just stop everything. The advice to industry is that to keep doing what you have been doing until we know more,” said Seamus Leheny, Northern Ireland policy manager for the industry group Logistics UK.
> There was confusion within businesses transporting goods through the ports following the unilateral announcement from Mr Poots with the North’s border control posts remaining open.
> “It has been relatively quiet but it appears that they are still staffed. I don’t really know the nature of the checks that are taking place and who is doing them. Guidance from Defra and Daera is that you keep doing the paperwork as you are meant to,” said Mr Leheny.
> He urged Brussels not to react “rashly” to Mr Poots’s move but to seek a resolution through ongoing discussions with the UK government where a solution is being sought to the dispute between London and Brussels over the operation of the protocol.
Well that was a whole lot of nothing.