Global Britain’s cheerleaders may have to live with lasting damage to exports

Kicking post-Brexit import controls down the road for a second time puts UK goods at a disadvantage

It came as a little surprise to anyone in the UK's logistics industry or at its ports when the government announced its decision to delay - for the second time in a little over six months - the introduction of post-Brexit import controls on goods arriving in Great Britain from the EU.

New checks on food and animal products imported from the continent will now not be brought in until 1 July 2022, a full year after they were originally intended to begin. The introduction of other requirements, including the paperwork that accompanies imports of food and animal products, has also been delayed from 1 October to next year.