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.
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".
The European Union has promised legal action after the British government unilaterally extended a grace period for checks on food imports to Northern Ireland, a move that Brussels said breached the terms of London’s EU divorce deal.
People working in the Irish fishing industry are protesting at Dublin Port over the impact of the Brexit deal.
Lambs to the slaughter
06/12/2020
International trade secretary tells PM and chancellor plans risk smuggling and damage to UK reputation.
"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."
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.
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.
Fishermen in Northern Ireland have written to the prime minister insisting they get a fair share of additional UK quotas secured by Brexit.
New Zealand meat exporters are losing patience over their inability to get product into Northern Ireland after Brexit.
NZ ready to get heavy with the UK [re CPTPP]
18/06/2020
New Zealand now stands between the United Kingdom and its hopes of entering the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement (CPTPP).
Opposition to ‘irresponsible’ Australia trade deal rages on as minister urged to ‘fight back’ or resign
24/05/2021
Liz Truss insists ‘British farmers have absolutely nothing to fear from this deal at all’
UK dismisses EU call for its trawlers to continue operating in UK waters.
Scottish fishermen eviscerate Boris Johnson’s ‘desperately poor’ Brexit deal in angry letter as losses mount
15/01/2021
Scottish Fishermen’s Federation accuses prime minister of misleading public about EU trade agreement.
Tariffs axed immediately on Australian beef and lamb, triggering fears that farmers will be sent ‘to the wall’
15/06/2021
Small print – revealed by Canberra, but suppressed in London – reveals pledge to protect farmers for 15 years has been dropped.
Thailand and the European Union (EU) have signed a new tariff rate quota deal, under which a predetermined number of the kingdom's goods can be exported to the bloc at pre-Brexit tax rates.
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.
EU rules will still affect UK but Britain will have no say in setting them.
Non-alignment with EU will mean ‘extra processes’ and not frictionless trade.
Cabinet office minister drops 'no compromise' stance, saying: 'If that is the price that we have to pay, then there we go'
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.
Industry leaders fear trading will be harder and more costly without comprehensive deal.
Brussels firms up position and bloc’s unity before tough talks on future relationship with UK.