The government has been warned to abandon its proposed tariff-free quota for raw cane sugar imports because of its potential to undercut UK growers.
Industry leaders fear trading will be harder and more costly without comprehensive deal.
East Anglia’s sugar beet farmers fear an “unjustified and unnecessary” new zero-tariff quota on imported cane sugar could expose them to unfair competition from less-regulated overseas growers.
We could end up with tonnes of fish that Brits don't even like and no way of selling them to the EU before they rot.
UK will lose market access if it ditches Brussels regulations, says EU chief Von der Leyen
22/01/2020
The UK’s access to the single market will be weakened if it does not continue to sign up to EU rules after Brexit, Ursula von der Leyen has said.
In frank interview, EU chief negotiator tells Britain that any lowering of regulatory standards will be punished.
An EU official has urged Boris Johnson to take the ‘unique and highly attractive’ offer it has made to the UK which it says has never been offered to any country before.
Pascal Canfin says UK’s zero tariff demands will be rejected, amid conflicting messages.
Cabinet office minister drops 'no compromise' stance, saying: 'If that is the price that we have to pay, then there we go'
John Cole explores the government's response to a petition calling for an enquiry into the impact of Brexit before it's debated in parliament.
Brussels rules out 'mutual recognition' of regulations between EU and UK ahead of talks.
NI Fishermen 'short-changed' in fish quota
25/03/2021
Northern Ireland's fishermen say they have been short-changed in a UK share-out of extra Brexit fish.
People working in the Irish fishing industry are protesting at Dublin Port over the impact of the Brexit deal.
"Hard facts rarely support the argument, common in the domestic fishing industry, that leaving the EU will somehow liberate the seas around the UK for the exclusive use of English and Scots vessels."
Fishermen in Northern Ireland have written to the prime minister insisting they get a fair share of additional UK quotas secured by Brexit.
Lambs to the slaughter
06/12/2020
Three years after Brexit, Scotland’s fishing and seafood industries are still snarled in costly red tape, worker shortages and disappointing catch quotas, leaders warn.
Brussels warns Boris Johnson's timeline for agreeing a free trade deal is 'just not possible'
16/01/2020
EU trade commissioner Phil Hogan also issues warning over goods and tariffs.
Non-alignment with EU will mean ‘extra processes’ and not frictionless trade.
A TOP EU official has hit out at the UK Government for making proposals about Brexit talks before a key meeting next month.
UK dismisses EU call for its trawlers to continue operating in UK waters.
Has the Brexit fishing promise come true?
06/02/2023
Even though fishing is a tiny part of the UK economy, it was a key issue in the Brexit campaign with promises to "take back control" of British waters. / At the end of 2020, Boris Johnson announced his new Brexit trade agreement with the EU, promising that "[we will] be able to catch and eat quite prodigious quantities of extra fish".
European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen pointed out that even Australia wants a better trading relationship with the bloc than the one it currently has.