'Hard' Brexit

[darmstadt]

I would dispute 2 as a “fact”. Can you cite the relevant GATT where it states that the rules require control of goods, and that there must be customs checks?

My understanding of reading it is that it is not the WTO’s function to state how a country controls it’s borders, but if a country does not do so then it leaves itself open to MFN

You're actually correct there, slightly overstated it. However border checks are up to each country to enact and this is actually a part of the current round of WTO talks:

https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/brief_tradefa_e.htm

If the EU decides that there needs to be border checks with a 3rd country, in fact there are already checks for non-Schengen countries anyway for freedom of movement only, and for non-EU countries for trade so the UK has to come up with a resolution, not the EU as they already have rules in place.

It would be interesting to see what is in this as well which went very quietly:

https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/n..._24jul18_e.htm

[meridian]

It would be interesting to see what is in this as well which went very quietly:

https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/n..._24jul18_e.htm

There’s a small thread on it here:
https://twitter.com/bbaschuk/status/...539008518?s=21

And another here:
https://twitter.com/davidheniguk/sta...670945795?s=21