New plans for post-Brexit border checks on goods coming into the UK will deter many EU suppliers and push up food prices, a trade body has said.
Warning over empty supermarket shelves and higher food prices as new post-Brexit charges hit
05/04/2024
The new charges are set to come into force at the end of the month and will mean higher food prices will be passed on to consumers, suppliers warn.
MAJOR food supply disruption is set to hit the UK in the new year when new post-Brexit restrictions come into force, a leading industry body has warned.
THE SNP has warned of a Tory government “post-Brexit limbo” after it was reported a fourth delay to checks on goods coming from the EU is being considered.
Post-Brexit restrictions could be a cause of incoming food supply disruption, with stricter EU rules potentially causing shortages thanks to changes to customs declarations on goods entering the UK.
The payments giant Visa is to hike fees for purchases made by UK-based customers from most of Europe – stoking fears of higher prices and fuelling the argument that Brexit is adding to the cost of trading with the EU.
The U.K. risks failing to recruit the 50,000 customs agents the logistics industry says are needed before Britain’s final parting with the European Union, spelling potential chaos at the country’s busiest border.
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The price of importing flowers into the UK is estimated to cost an additional £100 million due to new customs rules and tariffs brought on by Brexit.
Everything from meat, fish, cheese to meat products will cost more in the UK due to Brexit border controls.
UK/European Union trade contracted in the first month of their new post-Brexit relationship, with record falls in British exports and imports of goods as COVID-19 restrictions continued on both sides.
Tory MP Neil Hudson said he was worried that the free trade agreement (FTA) could see British farmers undercut and “undermined” by cheap Australian meat imports.
EU Commissioner Phil Hogan has said the UK's no-deal tariff plans - proposals that would see no import duties levied on goods entering Northern Ireland across the border - are likely to breach World Trade Organization rules.
The import of apparel by the United Kingdom was badly hit by Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. The value of UK’s apparel import has been declining from 2019, when it became imminent that Brexit is going to take place.
Egg shortages ‘just the start’, says NFU – warning tomatoes, cucumbers and pears could become scarce.
UK ‘failed to fulfil its obligations’ to stop Chinese companies flooding market with cheap clothes.
A British wholesaler who supplies the UK retail market is moving his business to the South of France in order to mitigate Brexit redtape, which he says has cost his business £150,000.
Tariffs will be cut to zero on 87% of imports to the UK as part of a temporary no-deal plan but prices of some imports including meat, shoes, underpants and cars will go up.
The ONS revealed that total trade in goods with EU countries tumbled by 23.1% in the first quarter compared with three years ago.
UK Trade with EU Plunges After Brexit
12/03/2021
U.K. trade with the European Union plunged in January as Britain’s departure from the bloc and widespread coronavirus restrictions dealt a double blow to the nation’s struggling economy.
Official figures confirmed a 41% drop in trade during the first month after the end of the transition period - with officials saying there was evidence disruption from new customs arrangement was behind some of the fall.
Official figures corroborate academic studies showing sharp drop in exports since Brexit.
BREXIT, according to its backers, was meant to create endless opportunities. So far, however, the UK has failed to make the vote profitable, with the prospect of "global Britain" quickly fading according to recent data.
The UK’s trade deficit with the European Union widened to a record in the final quarter of 2022 as imports from the bloc jumped.
New border checks in Kent and elsewhere reverse 47 years of removal of trade barriers.