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Originally Posted by nomadking
NI is not part of the EU single market, but as the NI protocol specifies, IS part of the UK single market.
Non-approved doesn't mean illegal. EU states can legally produce non-approved items, just as long as they don't market them etc within the EU. Small amounts of goods will always move across ANY border. There just wouldn't be the shipping of large quantities of non-approved goods from the UK into the EU via NI. Even then it would be an issue for the EU alone, just as it is for every other country on the planet. EG Chinese producers sometimes can and DO ship non-approved items into the EU and UK. Nothing new about that. Then again EU countries sometimes can and DO ship non-approved items to other EU countries and the UK. There simply was no justification for imposing restrictions on moving items between GB and NI.[COLOR="Silver"]
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I see the first part has been covered but on your point about non-EU products entering the EU, this is only done under very specific controlled circumstances. The non-approved products can only enter the EU to be further processed in to an approved state or held at specific auditable locations. There is a lot of paperwork involved at the port of entry.
The company I work for makes non-approved machinery for shipment to the US. Even the simple act of moving it from the factory to the shipper and onwards to the airport or port is riddled with difficulty.
In the case here, the port of entry in to the Single Market is where the goods are offloaded in Northern Ireland, not at the Northern Ireland/Republic of Ireland border