Nimisha Raja did all she could to prepare her business for 1 January but the upheaval is already taking its toll.
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.
Vets Receive The Brexit Treatment
22/10/2021
Stephen Delahunty explores how Britain’s departure from the EU is increasing the demand for vets, while their numbers fall
Food body warns of ‘post-Brexit perception problem’ over recurring traffic gridlock.
The British Meat Processors Association and the British Poultry Council are demanding urgent action from ministers to protect food supplies as the festive favourite is put at risk
One port operator has had to demolish building work for new checks, while other crucial customs sites do not even have planning permission yet.
The British Meat Processors Association (BMPA), which represents businesses in the UK meat sector, has reported on its members' experiences under post-Brexit trading rules.
UK Meat Industry: Brexit Impact Report
25/03/2021
The UK meat industry employs around 97,000 people and is worth an estimated £8.2 billion a year to the UK, including about £1.6 billion in exports. / This report examines the impact of the first three months of trading with the EU as a third country.
Industry chiefs urge government to forge standards deal with EU to ease ‘enormous’ trade friction.
Staff shortages see carcasses exported for processing and then reimported.
Sharp fall in qualified professionals needed to sign off health certificates for products going to EU.
Helen Browning’s Organic says it is switching to Danish suppliers owing to bureaucracy, delays and costs
A food manufacturer dubbed ‘the chicken king’ has warned Covid-19 and Brexit could result in the worst food shortages since the war.
Loss of 100,000 hauliers due to Covid and Brexit will cause food ‘rolling power cuts’, experts warn
Industry bosses call for measures to bring back Eastern European drivers after Covid and Brexit worsen a long-running shortage.
UK meat exporters have warned the government that post-Brexit changes at the border have caused disruption to meat shipments crossing the channel.
An article written by Peter Hardwick from the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) explains that the declining level of red meat exports between the UK and EU illustrates the new-found trade friction between the blocs.
Critical industry leaders have accused Home Secretary Suella Braverman of being disconnected from the realities facing short staffed sectors after she claimed that there is "no good reason" why more British people can't be trained to take up jobs as butchers and fruit pickers.
Shortages are the only thing we don't seem to be running out of in the UK right now.
Sausage makers say they won’t be able to sell into EU after Brexit because government hasn't sorted certification
18/02/2020
The UK's famous sausages, from Cumberland to Lincolnshire, stand to suffer if the government doesn't act.
Charlie McConalogue says trade between Ireland and UK will be difficult without deal.
Post-Brexit trade: Is red tape chaos just 'teething trouble' as the UK government argues?
29/01/2021
January has seen Brexit set in motion for real — but for many businesses, operations have ground to a standstill as they struggle to shift goods across new borders.
Post-Brexit Red Tape Is Set To Cost The Meat Industry £120m A Year and Reduce Some Exports By Half
24/03/2021
New barriers to the UK's trade with the European Union are set to cost British meat businesses an extra £120m a year and result in some traders losing 50% of their exports to the continent, a leading industry body has warned.
Post-Brexit controls on food, plant and animal imports to Britain from the EU have come into force.
EU said agreement on common rules ‘on the table’ - but UK would probably have to drop prized right to diverge