Failing to comply with the applicable customs requirements, supervision requirements and risk controls on the movement of goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
Failing to notify the transposition of EU legislation laying down general EU rules on excise duties
Failing to notify the transposition of EU rules on excise duties on alcohol and alcoholic beverages
Failing to implement EU rules on Value Added Tax (VAT) for e-commerce, namely the Import One-Stop Shop
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The UK has two months to reply to the letters, after which the Commission stands ready to take further measures.
The outcome might be a trade war.
And since British politicians don’t care about diplomatic solutions, actions like this seem to be quite likely.
October is going to be spicy hunker down
Hopefully truss tells the EU to get fuuuuucked.
Just repeal the deal and walk away. We never should have lowered ourselves to get a deal with these unelected bastards anyway.
Are we the baddies?
Yay a fight with our largest trade partner that’s gonna go well for us
Not a UK response but an analysis of events by the UK parliament’s support staff:
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Failing to comply with the applicable customs requirements, supervision requirements and risk controls on the movement of goods from Northern Ireland to Great Britain.
Failing to notify the transposition of EU legislation laying down general EU rules on excise duties
Failing to notify the transposition of EU rules on excise duties on alcohol and alcoholic beverages
Failing to implement EU rules on Value Added Tax (VAT) for e-commerce, namely the Import One-Stop Shop
__
The UK has two months to reply to the letters, after which the Commission stands ready to take further measures.
The outcome might be a trade war.
And since British politicians don’t care about diplomatic solutions, actions like this seem to be quite likely.
October is going to be spicy hunker down
Hopefully truss tells the EU to get fuuuuucked.
Just repeal the deal and walk away. We never should have lowered ourselves to get a deal with these unelected bastards anyway.
Are we the baddies?
Yay a fight with our largest trade partner that’s gonna go well for us
Not a UK response but an analysis of events by the UK parliament’s support staff:
https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/the-northern-ireland-protocol-eu-legal-action-against-the-uk/
*A hard Brexits a’comin…*