The same official added that there was also \u201cfrustration that other talks are lagging behind\u201d on the more contentious issue of youth mobility. Both officials were granted anonymity in order to speak freely about the ongoing talks.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Carbon tax hit<\/p>\n
Adam Berman, director of policy and advocacy at Energy UK, said it was now \u201cnot realistic\u201d that a linkage negotiation would be completed by the end of the year.<\/p>\n
This will be \u201cproblematic\u201d for British firms, Berman said, which will suddenly be subject to the new tax from Jan. 1, with the energy sector likely to be hit the hardest. But it could also harm the EU, which could see emissions increase as it seeks to replace relatively \u201ccleaner\u201d U.K. imports.<\/p>\n
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Meanwhile, the U.K.\u2019s EU Relations Minister Nick Thomas-Symonds has said he wants a Sanitary and Phytosanitary deal \u2014 which would see the U.K. align with EU agri-food standards \u2014 up and running by 2027. | Stefan Rousseau\/PA Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Another headache for both sides is the fact the new regime will apply in Northern Ireland, which has no hard border with the EU, meaning the region could become a backdoor into the EU market for high-carbon goods.<\/p>\n
Berman said there was speculation of a time-limited exemption from CBAM while the U.K. was in linkage negotiations with the EU. \u201cThe big question is \u2014 Can both sides have an honest conversation about what the implications might be if there isn\u2019t an exemption from the beginning of next year?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Nevertheless, Berman is hopeful of an eventual agreement, pointing out that the issue of ETS was \u201cnot highly politicized\u201d like other, more contentious aspects of the reset like youth mobility.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The same official added that there was also \u201cfrustration that other talks are lagging behind\u201d on the more…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5226],"tags":[7480,768,802,748,2813,26258,35753,1312,5398,35,2000,299,5187,1699,4884,475,678,2441,5733,809,810,1144,5111,3209,48,6861,1218,1200,16,15,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-556882","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brexit","8":"tag-advocacy","9":"tag-borders","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-britain","12":"tag-carbon","13":"tag-carbon-border-tax","14":"tag-cement","15":"tag-electricity","16":"tag-emissions","17":"tag-energy","18":"tag-eu","19":"tag-europe","20":"tag-european","21":"tag-european-union","22":"tag-great-britain","23":"tag-imports","24":"tag-ireland","25":"tag-markets","26":"tag-mobility","27":"tag-negotiations","28":"tag-nick-thomas-symonds","29":"tag-northern-ireland","30":"tag-parliament","31":"tag-payments","32":"tag-rights","33":"tag-single-market","34":"tag-steel","35":"tag-tax","36":"tag-uk","37":"tag-united-kingdom","38":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115513177929723633","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}