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<p>Significant progress has been made on the Withdrawal Agreement, including reaching
agreement at the March European Council on the legal text relating to the terms of
an implementation period. This will start on 30 March 2019 and last until 31 December
2020. During the implementation period, the UK will no longer be a Member State of
the European Union, but market access will continue on current terms. Common rules
will remain in place until the end of the period meaning businesses will be able to
trade on the same terms as now up until the end of 2020.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>The
Government recognises the importance to the country’s economy for trade fluidity through
the UK’s key ports. We want to ensure that traders, intermediaries and freight forwarders
can continue to move goods through ports as quickly and seamlessly as they do now.
We have set up a Border Delivery Group to bring together individual departmental plans,
forming an overall picture and plan of what we need to do at borders.</p><p><strong>
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