LONDON―Britain will seek a “temporary customs union” with the European Union after Brexit, the government said Tuesday as it prepared to publish its first detailed proposals on the future partnership. The government said it would seek to agree a “time-limited period of implementation” after leaving the EU to provide certainty for businesses and allow new customs arrangements to be set up. Britain says its membership of the EU customs union, which currently allows for the tariff-free movement of goods, will end along with its membership of the single market when it leaves the bloc in March 2019. After that “one possible approach would be a temporary customs union between the UK and the EU,” the Brexit ministry said in a statement, ahead of the publication of the full paper later on Tuesday. Britain will publish its proposals on the Northern Ireland border issue on Wednesday, ahead of the third round of Brexit negotiations in Brussels at the end of the month.

Source: The Standard August 15, 2017 08:15 UTC