division_name: Duties of Customs
motion: <p class="indent" pid="b758.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">That&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The paper gives rise to an unusually complex mix of legal and technical issues within equally complex political constraints. It is not our remit to enter into debate about the political constraints, but a lack of clarity around the political constraints makes the technical analysis somewhat more difficult.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b765.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We acknowledge the predicament of needing to begin the legislative process before knowing the outcome of negotiations. However, we have concerns around the limited level of scrutiny that this law-making process allows, given the political uncertainty, the potential for large-scale changes and tight timescales&#8230; The Bill will, we understand, have the powers to amend primary legislation using secondary legislation; raising similar concerns around delegated powers as with the EU Withdrawal Bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b771.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;at an early stage a time-limited interim period, linked to the speed at which implementation of the new arrangements could take place, that allows for a smooth and orderly transition.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Trade is a key driver of growth and prosperity. It stimulates greater business efficiency and higher productivity, sharing knowledge and innovation across the globe.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.3/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;provides a foundation for stronger and more prosperous communities. It ensures more people can access a wider choice of goods at lower cost&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b773.3/10" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Consider how best to protect the integrity of both the EU Customs Union, Single Market and trade policy, and the new independent UK customs regime, internal market and trade policy, in the context of finding flexible and imaginative solutions, while recognising that the solution will need to go beyond any previous precedents.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b778.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;other than goods originating from the European Union&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b783.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If we are not in the customs unions there will be job losses&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b785.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;equivalent to those of a full member of the Customs Union&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b786.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the best way to guarantee no adverse disruption to business and trade&#8230;and to guarantee only one adjustment before reaching a final agreement with the EU, is to seek to retain our existing membership of the Single Market and Customs Union&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b794.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;an innovative and untested approach&#8221;&#8212;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b794.0/9" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;that would need to be discussed further with the EU and businesses&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b794.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the Customs Bill could not be drafted to specifically provide for the implementation of this outcome. Should negotiations conclude that future customs arrangements with the EU should follow this model, further domestic primary legislation may be required.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b807.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;freest and most frictionless trade possible&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b814.0/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;At some ports, including Dover, as much as 99% of traffic relates to trade with the EU; witnesses told our predecessors that a no deal scenario might therefore result in effectively 100% of trade becoming &#8216;non-EU&#8217;, leading to a hundredfold increase in the number of customs declarations. This would be an unprecedented delivery challenge to UK border operations.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b816.1/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If we are not in the customs union there will be job losses. If we have a hard Brexit, the foundations we have built&#8230;for the next generation of engines will not be built upon. They will be built elsewhere.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="b816.1/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If no deal is reached on customs arrangements, it will result in all those involved in customs in the UK experiencing a huge amount of change in a very short time, with a vast increase required in capacity and processes at the border, with the risk of either significant delays at points of entry, or of inadequate checks taking place.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="b820.4/9" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="b820.4/10" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 76, Noes 311.</p>