Warning over empty supermarket shelves and higher food prices as new post-Brexit charges hit
05/04/2024
The new charges are set to come into force at the end of the month and will mean higher food prices will be passed on to consumers, suppliers warn.
The NFU warned Britain had been left for years without proper checks and balances on food imports from EU.
Concerns grow that post-Brexit trade deals could lead to further decline in quality as battery farm eggs are reintroduced.
Could take ‘decades’ to shift away from reliance on overseas staff, say food sector leaders attending Downing Street summit.
It comes after a former environment secretary criticised the treatment of farmers in the UK-Australia trade pact.
Getting things to and from mainland UK has affected everyone living in Northern Ireland.
The UK egg industry has reacted with disbelief that import tariffs on eggs and egg products are to be phased out following the government announcement that the UK is set to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP).
Three big retailers are placing limits on shoppers on some produce lines. What is behind the rationing?
Sutton St Edmund farmer is cutting free range egg production due to shortage of livestock workers following Brexit
16/12/2022
A free range egg farmer says he is having to cut production due to a skills vacuum in the industry. / Tony Gent says he is scaling back his production due to a shortage of skilled livestock workers following Brexit.
FUW President Glyn Roberts has described Brexit as a “mess” and says the exit from the EU is one of the factors responsible for the hardships now being faced by farmers across Wales.
Don't scrap EU rules, firms and unions say
24/11/2022
Business groups and unions are urging the government not to go ahead with plans to ditch a wide range of EU laws, warning the move could cause "confusion and disruption" in the UK.
The British government appears to have no political will to resolve its festering trade dispute with the European Union and risks endangering the hard-won peace in Northern Ireland, Irish Prime Minister Micheal Martin said Wednesday.
New post-Brexit customs rules explained as consumers warned they could lead to some shortages
01/01/2021
A UK business spoke about having no choice but to raise the prices of its goods as trade between the UK and the EU becomes increasingly difficult, ITV News Reporter Martha Fairlie reports on New Year's Day 2022.
New EU food safety regulation – coming into force next March – is ‘concerning’ exporters, MPs told.
Brexit impact ‘will get worse’ with supermarket shop to cost more and some EU products vanishing from shelves
21/09/2021
A leading customs expert who predicted the truck driver shortage and issues causes by the sea border in the Irish Sea believe delayed bureaucratic customs laws will lead to meats, fruit and vegetables from the EU being too costly to import.
Express goes bananas over EU
03/06/2016
The staunchly eurosceptic Daily Express has published a listicle about the “amazing things we get back if we leave EU”. / “From powerful vacuums to straight banana’s (sic), here are all the things we’ll get back if we vote out,” the paper says. / The piece has been getting widely shared online. But does it pass the FactCheck test?
EU and UK locked in talks about food safety.
The egg industry has raised concern over difficulties faced by those exporting 'seconds' to the EU following the end of the Brexit transition period.
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.
Grace periods for implementing post-Brexit checks on goods going from Great Britain to Northern Ireland are at the centre of tensions between the EU and UK.
Ministers considering ‘lighter touch’ regime to avoid disruption to supplies from bloc.
Supermarkets bringing meat products from Great Britain to Northern Ireland face new bureaucracy from Monday.
Brexit red tape is costing Fenland firm
04/02/2021
A businessman who says Brexit is destroying his business thanks to red tape has challenged the Prime Minister to try filling in the necessary customs forms.
Marks & Spencer has warned that up to 15% of its food product lines could be unavailable in its Northern Ireland shops in January.