Synonyms for customs union
cus·toms union

Princeton's WordNet

1. customs unionnoun

   an association of nations to promote free trade within the union and set common tariffs for nations that are not members

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1. Michael Gove:

   The UK will be outside the [ EU ] single market and outside the customs union, so we will have to be ready for the customs procedures and regulatory checks that will inevitably follow.

2. Jeremy Hunt:

   They had a lot of concern about, for example how we're going to avoid a hard border with Northern Ireland, whether it is possible to have frictionless trade without a customs union, what we've shown them is that that is possible. This is a very very significant step... I think we have the basis that we can move forward.

3. Nasser Saidi:

   The original customs union agreement, established Jan 2003, no longer serves the needs of the GCC countries ... including Saudi and the UAE and in light of the increased competition between the two countries pursuing similar non-oil diversification activities, the current dispute, while disruptive in the short-term, can open the door to a more efficient, modern, trade and investment framework and agreement that would boost growth prospects and allow for greater diversification, higher value-added regional trade.

4. Brandon Lewis:

   As a set of principles, one of the things we need to be able to do ... is the ability to do those international trade deals, to be able to trade globally around the world, and have an independent trade policy, that means we can't stay in the current EU customs union, there are a whole range of meetings today between senior ministers and colleagues around the House of Commons. We will listen to what people have to say.

5. Boris Johnson:

   Take out, excise, surgically remove the backstop, OK? thats the problem, thats the lobster pot, thats the trap that keeps us locked in the customs union and means we have this terrible Hobsons choice between, as it were, sacrificing Northern Ireland orremaining subject to the E.U. without having any say in the E.U.