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Cross-border trade in Ireland: A pricier pint
愛爾蘭跨境貿易：更貴的一品脫
Guinness is one of many businesses that could be hit by a harder boarder.
有很多行業可能會受到強硬邊境管控的影響，吉尼斯黑啤酒只是其中一種。
It might just be Ireland's most famous product.
吉尼斯黑啤酒可能是愛爾蘭最著名的產品。
And indeed, the Guinness that is brewed at the St James's Gate brewery in Dublin is shipped to Europe and across the Atlantic.
事實上，在都柏林圣詹姆斯門啤酒廠釀造的吉尼斯黑啤酒都被運往歐洲和大西洋彼岸。
But first the stout is transported north, in tankers that have become known as “silver bullets”, to be canned and bottled in east Belfast before returning to Dublin for export.
但這種黑啤酒首先在那些被稱為“銀彈”的油輪中被運往北方，在東貝爾法斯特灌裝并裝瓶，然后再返回都柏林進行出口。
Diageo, the multinational company that owns Guinness, says that its silver bullets make some 13,000 border crossings a year.
擁有自產吉尼斯的跨國公司帝亞吉歐發布公告說它的“銀彈”一年大約跨境13000次。
The company estimates that even a short delay of 30 minutes to an hour for customs checks would add about 100 euros($115) to the expense of each trip, costing it some 1.3m euros a year.
公司估計即使僅僅延遲30分鐘到一小時的海關檢查，也會增加大約100歐元（115美元）的費用，導致每年海關檢查費花費高達大約130萬歐元。
If that happened, the price of Guinness might have to rise.
如果發生這種情況，吉尼斯酒的價格可能會上漲。
Guinness is not alone.
吉尼斯并不是個例。
The abolition of customs controls in 1993 and of security checks after the Good Friday Agreement in 1998 has led to the creation of what is in effect an all-island economy, with supply chains criss-crossing the border.
由于1993年海關管制的取消和1998年“美好周五協議”之后的安檢取消，產生了一個實質上的全島經濟，其邊境供應鏈縱橫交錯。
Bilateral trade between Ireland and the United Kingdom is now worth over 1bn euros a week.
現在愛爾蘭和英國之間的雙邊貿易額每周超過10億歐元。
Most of that trade goes over the Irish Sea, but a fair amount crosses the border with Northern Ireland, especially in the agri-food sector.
大部分貿易越過了愛爾蘭海，而相當多的貿易跨越了北愛爾蘭邊境，尤其是在農業食品領域。
譯文來源考研英語時事閱讀
