A £5 billion EU continuity trade deal with Mexico, hailed by Whitehall as an “Aztec Brexit Boost”, has become obsolete – after the EU signed a more generous and comprehensive deal between its 27 members states and Mexico.
More than 15,000 direct and indirect jobs are currently being affected negatively due to the failure of Ghana and UK to sign a post Brexit trade agreement that allows Ghanaian fruit producers’ tariff free access to the UK market as exists under the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA).
£100,000 of tariffs slapped on Fairtrade bananas from Africa threatening farmers with ruin
23/01/2021
Liz Truss under pressure to explain why punishing levies being charged - despite announcement that UK-Ghana deal was struck.
Final bid to prevent huge new tariffs ruining African farmers amid allegations of UK ‘bullying’
05/12/2020
‘People in Ghana are very angry. They do not understand why Britain is acting like a bully’
David Davis suggested the turn in fortunes could be because the UK media have stopped “kicking Brussels all the time”.
Ghana won’t sign new UK trade deal in 2020
21/10/2020
Lack of time, an election and regional trade tensions have made agreeing a deal tricky.
Supermarkets have issued the first price rise to bananas in five years as post-Brexit vote currency fluctuations reek havoc with the cost of fresh produce.
BRITAIN can rest easy. The country’s bananas are safe and will not be subject to “malformation or abnormal curvature” following the UK Government’s decision to abandon throwing 4,000 pieces of EU law onto the Brexit bonfire by the year’s end.