Boris Johnson Is Flirting With a Trade War. He Shouldn’t.

There are two prospects right here: both each events, following a confrontation, concentrate on the technical fixes to easy Britain-Northern Eire commerce, or issues escalate. The U.K. would possibly then, as many Tories are urging, set off Article 16 of the Protocol, which permits both aspect to droop implementation unilaterally if it offers rise to “critical financial, societal or environmental difficulties which might be liable to persist or to diversion of commerce.”