Interesting Links for 07-04-2023

[andrewducker]

1. New Hollow-core Optical Fiber Is Clearer Than Glass

(tags:fibreoptics technology viaJane )

2. Post-Brexit border checks could deter EU imports

(tags:trade uk europe doom )

Comments

[hairyears]

There's an elephant in the room with that 'Post Brexit border checks article': the effect is asymmetric because the EU is implementing border checks, as efficiently as it it is practicable to do such things...

...And the corrupt and inept regime in Brexitstan lacks the administrative capacity to do so: so the UK is forced, by necessity, to simply wave everything through.

The other elephant is that small to medium-sized EU exporters, who are deterred by the administrative burden of exporting to Brexitstan (and by the rates hauliers have to charge, to offset the risk of being caught in a three-day queue on the M2 to Dover), have the easy option of developing new customers and markets within the entirety of the borderless EU.

The tldr version: a return to the pre-Single-Market barriers of European Borders is a massive impediment to Britain's importers and exporters: but EU-based entities exporting to Britain will suffer far less than their British counterparts.