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World Service,23 May 2018,26 mins
Brexit: Technology-based customs system 'could cost £20bn'
World Business ReportAvailable for over a year
The UK's tax authorities estimate a post-Brexit customs arrangement could cost businesses up to twenty billion pounds a year. Our business editor Simon Jack gives us the details. Also, Spain's former employment and social security minister Eduardo Zaplana has been arrested for alleged money laundering and misuse of public funds: Guy Hedgecoe is in Madrid with the latest. We get a markets update from Doug McIntyre of 24/7 Wall Street. Lucy Sheriff reports from Bogotá on Colombians' concerns with the economy in the run up to Sunday's presidential election. Lord Jim O'Neill authored a report for the UK government into antimicrobial resistance in 2016. He tells us what progress has been made since. And will a new, $21m roller coaster bring more crowds to Blackpool's famous Pleasure Beach in the north west of England? (Photo: Shipped goods. Credit: Getty Images)
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