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The UK government seems intent on ignoring more or less every aspect of their agreement with the EU. Apparently now they have announced that they will be postponing checks on goods arriving into the UK until October and in some cases not until 2022. Which I think would make the implementation of the NI protocol all the more important if we are to maintain our position within the EU single market.
We will maybe see trade disputes like this for some time which perhaps already began with AstraZeneca not meeting the agreed vaccine number with possibly no reciprocal exports from the UK. The EU of course can carry out legal action and implement tariffs on the UK and certainly impose it's own controls but I doubt if the current UK government will care in the slightest even if they are still in a weaker position.
We will maybe see trade disputes like this for some time which perhaps already began with AstraZeneca not meeting the agreed vaccine number with possibly no reciprocal exports from the UK. The EU of course can carry out legal action and implement tariffs on the UK and certainly impose it's own controls but I doubt if the current UK government will care in the slightest even if they are still in a weaker position.