Costly import red tape means UK food prices will rise, expert warns
UK food importers are clashing with the government over a threat of inflationary increases to ...
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UK mussel exporters are “furious” that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) failed to correctly understand rules surrounding sending their shellfish to the EU.
As post-Brexit, the UK is now a “third country” under EU regulations, exporters of live bivalve molluscs (LBMs) from Class B waters are no longer able to send stock to the EU for depuration.
They claim Defra “repeatedly assured” them they would not be impeded by this rule and the department has found itself facing ...
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