NI Secretary Chris Heaton-Harris asks people to reserve judgement on the new red and green lane system.
The new system for moving goods from Great Britain to Northern Ireland will work "unbelievably well", the Northern Ireland secretary has said.
Unionist parties had raised concerns about additional checks on goods moving between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, which shares a land border with the European Union. Speaking on Sunday at the Conservative Party conference in Manchester, Mr Heaton-Harris told BBC News NI the paperwork required for those business in a new trusted trader scheme is the same as what is needed for goods moving from his constituency in Daventry to the Isle of White."The process is unbelievably straight forward, so straight forward that 1,600 new business have registered to use the green lane," he added.
On his talks with the DUP to restore the Stormont Institutions, the secretary of state said: "We are moving into the final phase.
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