UK’S MEAT INDUSTRY WARNS OF POST-BREXIT WTO TARIFFS IF BRITAIN CANNOT SECURE DEAL WITH EU PARTNERS
November 1st, 2017
Meat sector organisations have warned a UK parliament committee that the industry will suffer dire consequences should Britain crash out from the European Union (EU) in March 2019 without having negotiated a Brexit deal with its current EU partners.
The executive secretary of the UK Livestock Auctioneers’ Association, Christopher Dodds, told a hearing of the environment, food and rural affairs committee of the damage caused by Britain’s trading relationship with the EU being government by World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. This would lead to EU member ...
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