‘It’s trade bureaucracy’: Coveney urges businesses to prepare for new Brexit rules after years of UK ‘crying wolf’

New post-Brexit trade rules, which will see Great Britain introduce full customs controls for goods from Ireland, are a form of “trade bureaucracy”, the minister for enterprise has said.

Simon Coveney said that the changes, which will come into effect on Wednesday, had been delayed on successive occasions after the UK “cried wolf” following its decision to leave the European Union in 2016, as he urged businesses here to familiarise themselves with the incoming measures.