UK Foreign Secretary Threatens Use of Article 16 if Northern Ireland Talks With EU Fall Through
U.K. Foreign Secretary Liz Truss said she's ready to trigger Article 16 if talks over Northern Ireland with the EU fall through. In an opinion piece in The Telegraph, Truss said that to resolve the impasse, she may override parts of the post-Brexit agreement that impose a de facto customs border down the Irish Sea, making trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the U.K. more difficult. Truss is meeting her EU counterpart Jan. 13, and used her Telegraph piece to lay out her priorities.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
“When I see Maros Sefcovic this week for our first face-to-face talks, I’ll be putting forward our constructive proposals to resolve the situation,” Truss said. Article 16 “was explicitly designed -- and agreed to by all sides -- to ease acute problems because of the sensitivity of the issues at play."