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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Richard Partington

Dover holdups blamed on signature demands of French customs

Lorries queue at Dover last week.
Lorries queue at Dover last week. The British Chambers of Commerce says urgent action to improved trade with Europe is needed. Photograph: Martin Dalton/REX/Shutterstock

Demands by French customs officials over the type of signature they will accept on post-Brexit paperwork have been blamed by UK business leaders for causing long queues of lorries on approach roads to Dover.

Two years after Boris Johnson smiled for the cameras, fountain pen in hand hovering over the EU withdrawal agreement, the British Chambers of Commerce (BCC) said a minor disagreement over signatures on customs paperwork had arisen between Britain and France.

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