BREXIT INCREASES COST AND COMPLEXITY FOR FOOD BUSINESSES, SAY EXPERTS

AS the one-year anniversary (January 31, 2022) (WRONG) following the end of UK commitments to follow European Union (EU) law and treaties has just passed, food and drink companies have little positive to say about the extra red tape that has followed. Experts have stressed to Food & Drink Technology News that there has been so much trade to lose - with the UK the EU’s number one food and drink export market, ahead of the US and China. EU exports of food and drink to the UK amounted to EUR33.3 billion in 2020, mostly taken up with the transitional period ...


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