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The UK Government’s lack of urgency in addressing “glaring holes” in its post-Brexit provisions for agri-food and livestock trade could cause businesses to close, according to a report published today.
CSO data shows biggest fall is in chemicals, food and live animals.
Australia trade deal would cause cruelty not tolerated in UK and betray the public, warns RSPCA
19/05/2021
Agreement would undermine major overhaul of animal-welfare laws announced to fanfare last week, campaigners say.
UK now has a more limited relationship than when it was inside the EU... These difficulties have manifested themselves in various forms of red tape and difficulties around SPS rules.
EU proposes the UK temporarily align on plant and animal rules to remove Irish Sea checks.
A lack of border inspection post at French port Calais has meant live animals from the UK have been forced to make much longer journeys to meet their destinations, the British Veterinary Association (BVA) has warned.
Legal experts at Walker Morris discuss what food businesses need to know about phases 2 and 3 of implementing checks at the Great Britain/EU border now the Brexit transition period has ended.
Volatile farm incomes, live animal exports to the EU, the state of our woodlands - Farming Today
14/04/2021
More than 100 days after the end of the Brexit transition period, the trade in live animals for breeding is still being affected by the changes. Importers report delays, extra paperwork and mounting costs, while live exporting to the EU by sea has come to a complete halt because of a lack of border control posts on the other side of the Channel.
The introduction of new Brexit checks at the start of the year continued to hamper UK meat exports to the EU in February, new trade figures show.
EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge
Farmgate prices for lamb and beef have hit a new high over the first months of 2021.
EU Exit and international trade adviser, Tori Morgan, outlines the main points of the NFU response to the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee inquiry on moving animals across borders in our post-Brexit world.
The Managing Director of one of the UK's leading providers of Official Veterinarians and Meat Hygiene Inspectors has strongly criticised the UK Government’s decision to further delay checks on goods entering Great Britain from the European Union.
New delays to post-Brexit import controls announced despite tax evasion and smuggling fears
11/03/2021
Businesses had warned of Northern Ireland-style disruption to trade if yet more red tape was imposed.
Grace periods for implementing post-Brexit checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are at the centre of tensions between the EU and UK.
A senior Ulster Unionist peer has called for urgent action to address an increasingly serious shortage of vets carrying out official meat inspections in Northern Ireland.
It has been another gloomy week on the sunlit uplands of sovereign Britain, as a senior minister accused the EU of seeking “petty revenge” – and then hinted that the government might ban imports of European mineral water and seed potatoes.
Lucrative live shellfish trade also hit hard, with consultation over further restrictions on live animal exports ending soon.
'High value' UK livestock trade could be lost after Brexit following cash blow to Portsmouth port
03/02/2021
Portsmouth International Port will only get £17.1 out of £32m, meaning an essential live animal border control point cannot be built.
A live animal border control post needed due to Brexit will not be built at Portsmouth International Port.
Local council and MP add to calls for more funding for vital inspection post, without which UK’s livestock breeding industry may be at risk
More ferries are to sail directly from Ireland to the European mainland in a move to circumvent the traditional trade route over mainland England and Wales.
With negotiations between the UK and the European Union (EU) - over a trade agreement - going down to the wire, the possibility of there being no deal is being talked about.