BREXIT WILL BE TOUGH FOR COSMETICS INDUSTRY, EXPERTS SAY AT COSMETICS EUROPE CONFERENCE
June 1st, 2017
THE UK’s exit from the European Union (EU), scheduled April 1, 2019, will be a real challenge for the European cosmetics industry, John Chave, director-general for EU industry body Cosmetics Europe told Soap Perfumery & Cosmetics in an exclusive interview on the sidelines of the key European Cosmetics Week 2017 event in Brussels.
“We have significant exports from the UK [EUR2.7 billion in 2016]. There would be great uncertainty if there was a hard Brexit – with all the problems of tariffs for imports and exports and even if there is a ‘soft’ one, ...
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