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The UK's plan for post-Brexit customs is more hopeful than realistic

It proposes a 'streamlined customs arrangement' which sounds like a form of free trade agreement

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Peter Holmes | The Conversation
The UK government has issued its official position paper on the issue of the customs union and Brexit. It emphasises a desire for the “most frictionless trade possible in goods between the UK and the EU” and proposes two ways of achieving this in the long term, while making it clear that the UK will leave the EU’s customs union when it leaves the EU.
The first option it proposes is a “streamlined customs arrangement” which sounds like a form of free trade agreement (but there is no mention of this as an aim). It involves keeping in
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