Government admits there will be New Trade Checks between Britain and Northern Ireland, despite Boris Johnson Promise

There will be new controls on goods between different parts of the UK under Boris Johnson'sBrexitdeal, the government has admitted in public for the first time.

An action plan published on Wednesday says businesses will need to fill out export declarations for goods moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland.

Ministers have also admitted there will need to be extra border infrastructure in Northern Irish ports to ramp up checks on food and live animals. Spot checks will also take place in ports.

But ministers denied that the checks amounted to a border, the paper stating that the protocol does not create "any kind of international border in the Irish Sea between Great Britain and Northern Ireland".

Cabinet office minister Michael Gove told the Commons: "In order to ensure UK trade qualifies for tariff free status, there will need to be declarations on goods as they move from GB to NI. But these systems will be electronic and administered by UK authorities.

He added that "implementation of the protocol will not involve new customs infrastructure" but said the UK acknowledged that "some expansion of existing infrastructure to provide for some additional new process for the agriculture and food sector".

The "sanitary and phytosanitary" checks to be carried out by this infrastructure are technically not customs checks but are still checks.

Boris Johnson had previously said there would be no checks at all within the UK. On 8 December ahead of the election he said: "There's no question of there being checks on goods going NI/GB or GB/NI because they are part of - if you look at what the deal is, we're part of the same customs territory and it's very clear that there should be unfettered access between Northern Ireland and the rest of GB."

Questions:

1.If Great Britain makes a law to check it exports to Northern Ireland, what would be the technical name for such a law? What would be the name if Northern Ireland passes a similar law checking goods arriving its borders from Great Britain?

2.Would you say export and import controls are a form of trade barrier? Briefly explain your answer.