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Originally Posted by Pierre
Do we have to physically inspect vehicles?
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Not all of them, but certainly
some of them.
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Or can what is loaded onto vehicles be logged onto a database at the loading point. ANPR can click it as passes through the border ( and at other points along the way). The contents can the be checked off again at the point of unloading.
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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.
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It is not beyond the wit of man to sort this out if there was a real desire to do it.
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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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Originally Posted by nomadking
Everything will have already been "booked in" from our current external borders, eg container ships from China, or produced in the UK.
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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.