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Ian Wright, who leads the Food and Drink Federation, said that things are going to get worse before they get better.
Export values of chocolate from the UK to the EU have fallen significantly from 2019 to 2021, with figures down 36.9%
SOME of Scotland’s most important exports have seen costly reductions in sales to other countries, research has revealed.
New post-Brexit border paperwork coming into force in July is expected to cost UK food companies millions of pounds, according to a trade body.
Labour said the revelations "blow apart" the "myth" that UK-EU trade disruption is a temporary problem.
Heinz's announcement that it was to start making ketchup in the UK again was widely hailed, but the UK's post-Brexit food and drink manufacturing sector still faces stern challenges.
Sharp fall in qualified professionals needed to sign off health certificates for products going to EU.
The UK’s export market suffered a total fall of £750 million - a 75.5 per cent decline from the previous January, the FDF said.
Salmon exports fell 98% in January from year-earlier period. / Sales to Germany, Ireland, Italy down by more than 80%: FDF.
British food exporters are set to be hit with millions of pounds of new costs due to new EU post-Brexit bureaucracy from next month.
Former Sainsbury’s boss says Brexit will have a bigger impact than Covid on food and drink
17/09/2021
‘In two years’ time you are all going to realise Brexit was bigger news than Covid,’ warns Justin King.
JAMES BALL examines the areas where Britain is now feeling the painful consequences of its departure from the EU.
Figures reveal impact of Brexit and pandemic, with £2.7bn fall blamed largely on 24% drop in sales to bloc
British companies say EU customers have walked away from them because of the new red tape.
Dairy shipments collapse by as much as 96 per cent. Experts say extra red tape and delays are to blame.
MPs were also warned that the UK could be “50,000 customs agents” short of what is needed when import regulations are enforced from April.
Industry chiefs and experts tell i the introduction of customs controls could also affect small businesses, some of which could be forced to pay tariffs.
"Rules of origin are the complex requirements that determine whether or not a product is produced ‘locally’ in the UK or the EU – its economic nationality. If it is not deemed to be sufficiently British, it may not qualify for these preferential tariff rates"
Sales to Germany, Spain and Italy all dropped by more than a third in the past year.
Many Scottish food and drink suppliers plan to decrease or stop exports to the EU amid the regulatory fallout from Brexit, an industry survey suggests.
Delays, paperwork and additional costs are making British chocolate scarce in Europe.
Lord Frost, Boris Johnson’s Brexit minister, is reportedly considering allowing “lighter touch” controls on imports from 1 April.
Bureaucratic Brexit checks have begun and are hitting British businesses when they’re at their most vulnerable
06/01/2022
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UK food and drink exports to EU plummet
02/09/2021
Food and drink exports from the UK have plummeted due to a sharp drop in trade with the EU after Brexit, according to fresh research published today.