Brexit in microcosm

[Young Master Smeet]

https://www.politico.eu/article/ukrainian-chicken-oligarch-makes-bid-for-eu-market/

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Brussels uses high tariffs and restricted import quotas to shield EU farmers from too much competition from imported chicken breasts — one of the most valuable poultry cuts. But MHP, a company controlled by billionaire oligarch Yuriy Kosyuk that accounts for half of Ukraine’s chicken production, has seen a way to beat the EU’s defenses. 

Under the EU’s 2016 trade deal with Ukraine, Kiev won the right to export an obscure, bony cut of chicken tariff-free to the bloc: breast with a piece of wing bone attached. European farmers complain that the Ukrainians are exploiting this loophole to skirt tariffs. This bony cut is sent to EU plants, but the bone is then sliced out and sold as prize chicken breast.

This is exactly the sort of chicanery that will happen around the UK's borders (and the skullduggery will be on both sides); within the EU the Court of Justice resolves these sorts of disputes, but what will replace it for the UK?

 

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