From Monday, any cars the UK exports to Canada will face an additional 6% tariff, or tax. The change comes after a post-Brexit agreement to continue EU trading terms expired without a new deal. The new tariffs are determined by whether the UK
A post-Brexit change in immigration patterns to Northern Ireland is continuing, an Ulster University economist’s analysis suggests. UK law now makes it harder for non-Irish EU nationals to move to NI for low-paid work. However, liberalisation of the visa system for high-skilled and
Plans to send a rescued turtle to warmer waters have been caught up in “limboland”, a charity has said. Loggerhead turtle, named Barnacle Bill by rescuers, washed up on the west coast of Guernsey in November during Storm Ciarán. The GSPCA said Bill
Leo Varadkar was taoiseach during the most intense phase of Brexit, when the Irish border was central to negotiations. In January 2017, the then UK Prime Minister Theresa May said Brexit would mean the UK leaving the single market and the customs union.
The Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) has said it will attempt to veto a new EU law applying in Northern Ireland by using one of the democratic consent processes in the Windsor Framework. The framework is the special Brexit deal which applies to Northern
Members of Northern Ireland’s equine industry protested at Belfast docks on Thursday night over what they described as “a continuing Irish Sea border”. They claimed many aspects of trading between NI and Great Britain had not improved since the deal which led to
Jersey’s “reputation is being tarnished” due to Brexit-related trade delays, the owner of an oyster company has said. Chris Le Masurier said EU paperwork was taking “days to complete” before he can sell his stock in France. He described the restrictions as “bureaucratic
I know it’s time for the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) conference when farmers start sliding into my DMs to ask for good places to eat Indian food in Birmingham. For many, the next two days are a very welcome break from the day-to-day
The first minister has blamed Brexit-voting farmers for Welsh ministers having to draw up their own farm subsidy proposals. Mark Drakeford’s government is consulting on plans for a scheme to replace EU-designed agricultural aid. Farmers have held go-slow protests over the plans, which
It was feared that introducing cameras or border posts as part of checks on incoming and outgoing goods could lead to instability. How will the new Northern Ireland trade deal work? The new deal agreed between the UK government and the DUP, external
