Oh.
And more SPS checks are soon supposed to be carried out on imports…
And more SPS checks are soon supposed to be carried out on imports…
https://twitter.com/pmdfoster/status/1496399620351668230
Whilst the U.K. Gov is busy imposing painful sanctions on itself rather less so 🇷🇺
Food producers estimate that Brexit-related bureaucracy, which has seen the number of official export forms to be filled increase 12-fold since January 2021, is costing the industry £60mn a year.
Food producers estimate that Brexit-related bureaucracy, which has seen the number of official export forms to be filled increase 12-fold since January 2021, is costing the industry £60mn a year.
The number of EHCs increased from 29,000 in 2020 to more than 288,000 in 2021, according to official government figures, requiring the equivalent of 580,000 hours of work for vets.
Meanwhile since new immigration controls came into force in January 2021, the numbers applying to work in Britain fell from 1,132 in 2019 to just 364 last year, according to data from the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
Food industry groups estimate that absorbing the costs of the new sanitary and phytosanitary measures — so called SPS checks — would require an additional £3bn of sales in the first year of Brexit.
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