chrisw01 - WTO BORDERS27 Nov 2018 18:28
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/wto-says-its-rules-would-not-force-eu-or-uk-to-erect-hard-irish-border-1.3710136
YOU probably missed or ignored the summary at the end of YOUR own link ...ABOVE
Which was this........
“The WTO rules are neither here nor there. They don’t require you to protect your border,” said Prof Morgenroth.
“What does require you to protect your border is protecting the integrity of your single market; it needs to be preserved. Ireland would be required by EU law to do so and it is in Ireland’s interests to do that. Ultimately, it is about protecting jobs.”
He used the example where the UK might agree a deal with Brazil resulting in Irish beef farmers being confronted with tariff-free Brazilian beef imports to the UK across the Border in Northern Ireland.
“That beef could easily go across the Border without checks, you have an incentive to do so,” he said.
Prof Morgenroth used this as an example too about why technological solutions, which the UK government is keen to examine, will not solve the Border issue either as “you cannot look into trucks”.
At present, more than half of all Irish beef is exported to the UK.
“I can’t see a tractable solution to the border issue if the UK wants to deviate sufficiently strongly from the status quo,” said the DCU academic.