NEW BREXIT DEAL DELIVERS FOOD AND DRINK FREE TRADE, BUT AT COST OF NEW RED TAPE
January 2nd, 2021
While the new European Union (EU)-UK trade deal delivering the post-Brexit trading relationship between Britain and the EU has preserved a good measure of free trade for food and drink, the agreement introduces fresh red tape that maybe costly.
The deal allows for quota and duty free trades in food and drink between the EU and the UK. And a related recognition by the EU of the UK as a ‘third country’ with equivalent food safety and animal welfare standards means potential blocks on UK exports of meat, fish, dairy products, plants and seeds, to the EU have ...
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