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Originally Posted by Damien
Not all of them, but certainly some of them.
Who checks them? You can't have customs officials at every possible unloading point in the country. Do you just trust the final recipients to declare items to be taxed, items that shouldn't have made it though? The obvious place would be in the Irish Sea but that is a non-starter with the DUP and Unionists because it further diverges N.Ireland from the rest of the U.K. which is why we asked for the wider backstop.
Plenty of people have said this but no one has an answer. People will say 'we'll just use blockchain/technology/the cloud' without elaborating or that 'it will be fine' but against without the actual answer.
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No because at the moment with the EU everything that comes into the UK from elsewhere is checked and anything from the EU is not. That's because they're checked on their entry into the EU.
We're talking about a new EU border. For most cases that's fine since we're an island so have checks at every entry point apart from one: The border on the island of Ireland.
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The EU is
supposedly concerned about illicit goods entering the EU via NI. All goods from outside the EU and UK, will have already been checked by UK Customs.