M&S vehicles, he added, travel to ports with an average of 700 pages of documentation. Writing in the same paper, M&S boss Archie Norman said the rules were "at odds with a modern, fresh food, supply chain between close trading partners. A rise in food and drink sales to non-EU countries of 13% was not enough to prevent an overall drop of 4.5%.Īn editorial in the Mail on Sunday on August 29 blasted "the curse of border bureaucracy", slamming "obsolete" EU customs rules holding up UK exports as well as the UK's own "tiresome and self-harming restrictions" on imports. In another move which does temporarily ward off more trouble for businesses, the government has postponed by a year a requirement for goods sold in the UK to carry a new British product safety mark, which had been due to take effect next January.įigures from the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) released on September 2 show that UK exports to the EU plunged by 15.9% in the first half of 2021 compared to the same period in 2020 (and by 27.4% compared to 2019). "We really hope this one can be kicked down the road!" are going to be a game-changer and I have no answer as to how we will handle that," he told Euronews. "We will be able to handle most things but the back labelling rules. He is worried, however, about another UK requirement due to take effect later in 2022, when all wine imports will need to include importer details on back labels. Tim Ford of Domaine Gayda, a winery in France's Languedoc region which exports to the UK, says on the other hand that the new paperwork is "posing no issues", although "the wait time for a pick up is probably double last year".
The paperwork challenge is set to get worse, he warns, citing future constraints and inspections the British government is due to impose on organic wine imports from the EU that are "beyond the realms of stupidity". "Logistics to the UK have never been so dire in the 29 years I have been trading, and the delays for stock coming over from the EU show zero signs of improving," Welsh-based wine importer Daniel Lambert said on Twitter, adding that post-Brexit, "days have become weeks". Great Oil UK's post-Brexit experience of importing olive oil from Spain into the UK.
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