Thread by @ManufacturingNI

On @BBCRadio4 now. This year, 18,000 Export Health Certificates are issued for food goods which cross the border. That will rise to an estimated 2,000,000 EHC's in No Deal! /1

@BBCRadio4 They need to come from an Authorised VET, from an Authorised premises and enter the EU through a Border Inspection Point. /2

@BBCRadio4 So, a sandwich maker in Derry supplying a Chicken and Bacon sandwich to a filling station in Donegal would need a EHC for the Chicken and one for the Bacon /3

@BBCRadio4 That is if he/she can find an Authorised Vet and have his/her premises authorised /4

@BBCRadio4 Then, the sandwich has to travel through Northern Ireland, cross the border at Auchnacloy, drive the rest of the 150 miles to Dublin Port to pass through the Border Inspection Post /5

@BBCRadio4 And then make the 150 mile journey back, cross the Border again, drive through NI and cross the Border to get to the retailer in Donegal (1 mile away) /6

@BBCRadio4 Will that happen? No chance. The business is lost or the company (and RoI retailer) will break the law /7

@BBCRadio4 And, there's another big issue...

@BBCRadio4 DEFRA charge £200 per EHC, charged to the manufacturer or processor. But, DEARA (the NI Department) do not have the legal right to charge this back /8

@BBCRadio4 So, 2,000,000 EHC's at £200 a time = £400,000,000 which the NI Block Grant needs to pay! /9

@BBCRadio4 With c70 days to run, someone somewhere needs to be choosing which public service needs to be reduced, removed or closed. Which hospital ward will close to pick up this bill? Or are HMG going to lump more money in to NI to pay for it? /10

EHC's come on top of the costs of Origin Certificates, the changes needed to secure market authorisations, new customs processes and procedures and much more /11

Or, we agree a deal. Ends.