Articles involving: Brexit
08 Oct, 2024
Another delay to post-Brexit border controls
Borders, Brexit,
Since the end of the transition period a series of staged border controls on exports and imports has been imposed, the last of which is the…
09 Aug, 2024
Sam Lowe’s latest take on a veterinary agreement
Brexit, EU,
We always enjoy Sam Lowe’s weekly Most Favoured Nation blog. He’s a self-confessed trade nerd and has a pithy knack of illuminating even the most convoluted…
01 Aug, 2024
Brussels sets conditions for improved UK-EU relations
Brexit, EU,
Brussels has issued a warning to the UK in a paper this week, stipulating that it must fully implement existing Brexit agreements concerning Northern Ireland and…
19 Jul, 2024
New bill paves the way for smoother trade with the EU
Brexit, EU,
Buried in the accompanying notes to the King’s Speech is a section on the new Product Safety and Metrology Bill which, if extended to food products…
20 Jun, 2024
Labour’s plans could mitigate but not reverse economic damage to economy
Brexit, EU, Exports,
New analysis out this week from UK in a Changing Europe has looked at the impact on trade that Labour’s plans for closer alignment with the…
13 Jun, 2024
Nick Allen tells New Food Magazine meat industry’s top concerns
Brexit, Food Security,
Ahead of the election, Nick Allen, CEO of the British Meat Processors Association sat down with New Food Magazine's Josh Minchin and Grace Galler to discuss…
28 Jul, 2022
Think tank criticises absence of animal welfare safeguards in new UK Trade deals
Animal Welfare, Brexit, Trade,
A new report from independent think tank ResPublica has exposed a number of flaws in the UK’s recent trade deals with Australia and New Zealand that open…
16 Jul, 2021
New Aussie trade deal is a significant cause for concern
Brexit, Trade,
While we generally welcome progress to freer trade, the new tariff-free quotas that the UK Government has granted to Australia for their beef and lamb exports…
21 May, 2021
Australian free trade agreement on beef – the devil is in the detail
Brexit, Trade,
In a Times Radio interview this week former Australian Foreign Minister, Alexander Downer stressed that Aussie meat companies would only be sending ‘high end cuts’ to…
10 Feb, 2021
We can get astronauts into space, but not pork chops to Paris
Borders, Brexit, Exports,
Talk radio host Ian Collins in a recent interview with Peter Hardwick, BMPA’s Trade Policy Advisor, remarked on the irony of watching astronauts in Elon Musk’s space shuttle “waving…