BREXIT LEADS TO EXPORT RED TAPE HEADACHES FOR BRITISH CHEESEMAKERS

THE 11TH-HOUR trade deal UK and European Union (EU) negotiators struck last Christmas Eve reassured many dairy traders, but British cheesemakers now face major challenges. New expensive and complicated bureaucracy for UK-EU trades is fouling-up overseas dairy sales, and even pricing smaller companies out of the EU market. Some UK dairies say that EU rules requiring vet-approved health certificates for every shipment are killing sales to consumers and small cheese shops on the European continent. Larger orders are also affected, because the risk of lorries being ...


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