Customs Union in a sentence

CUSTOMS UNION: The European Union customs union makes the 28-nation bloc a single customs territory, with no tariffs or border checks on goods moving between member states.

Northern Ireland would remain partially tied to the EU’s Customs Union when Britain leaves, with a customs and regulatory border in the Irish Sea.

The Irish and other EU governments have objected to proposals to take Northern Ireland out of the EU customs union - along with the rest of the UK - meaning the return of customs checks on the island of Ireland.

The EU wants Northern Ireland effectively to remain in the single market and the customs union to avoid the need for customs checks until there is a final free trade deal between the UK and the EU.

Customs duties from the Southern African Customs Union, which may equal as much as 70% of government revenue this year, and worker remittances from South Africa substantially supplement domestically earned income.

Turkey and Britain signed a free trade agreement on Tuesday, ensuring a continuity of commerce after Britain leaves the European Union’s (EU) single market and customs union this week.

Thus, the products imported and put into circulation in the territory of the Union must comply with the requirements of technical regulations of the Customs Union.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has insisted that the whole United Kingdom will leave the single market and a customs union when it leaves the European Union in March next year, although little would change in practice for another two years.

In the case of signing bilateral agreements, it is difficult for the Gulf Customs Union to be established, due to the single point of entry for imported goods.

Kilicdaroglu has made a point of calling for a renegotiation of the customs union, which has linked the country to the EU since 1996, to be more favorable for Turkey.

Some are still developing inter-country connections while others are the stages of either free trade area or customs union/common market.

The protocol on post-Brexit trading rules, signed between London and Brussels, keeps Northern Ireland in the European single market and customs union and stipulates checks on goods moving from the rest of the UK to Northern Ireland.

The SNP MPs caused Prime Minister Theresa May’s 2019 Commons motion to stay in the EU Customs Union to fail by five votes.

But he flatly rules out any attempt to go for the big move, which would be to negotiate the UK back into the EU customs union and/or the single market.

Following a speech to Eurogroup finance ministers in Brussels - the first given by a UK chancellor since Brexit - Reeves repeated that the UK would not rejoin the single market and customs union or Freedom of Movement, as outlined in the Labour manifesto.

Sir Keir has previously ruled out rejoining the European single market or customs union, with senior shadow cabinet minster Jonathan Reynolds stating the party would not “re-open the wounds of the past”.

Szijjarto said Hungary’s EU presidency later this year would prioritise the upgrade and expansion of the customs union between the EU and Turkiye, and it would also take steps to advance a visa liberalisation accord.

This could take the form of rejoining the customs union, the single market, or rejoining the EU outright.

And to maintain the sacred ‘four freedoms’, the Single Market and the Customs Union, it would also require a hard border at the Tweed.

Both sides will be economically worse off than if services had been covered or had the UK remained in the single market or customs union.