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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll and Julian Borger in Washington

Brexit: unilateral action on NI protocol ‘not conducive’ to trade deal, warns US

Britain’s foreign secretary, Liz Truss
The foreign secretary, Liz Truss, visiting Lisburn in May. The UK plans to scrap protocol-mandated checks on goods going into Northern Ireland from Great Britain. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA

The US government has warned that Boris Johnson’s move to unilaterally axe some of the Northern Ireland Brexit arrangements protocol was a matter of continuing concern and “not conducive” to a trade deal.

Senior officials have hit back at suggestions that the lack of public commentary by the Biden administration meant it was not troubled by the move to bring in new laws to ditch part of the Brexit deal signed in 2020.

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