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...Animal products entering the UK from the EU will be waved through without checks if British ports are overwhelmed by new post-Brexit border controls, according to documents seen by the Financial Times....
...However, Thomas-Symonds urged Dowden to consider Labour’s policy of trying to negotiate a so-called sanitary and phytosanitary agreement with the EU on plant and animal products....
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...From April 30, there will be inspections and fees which all trade groups involved in moving plant and animal products have warned are going to land disproportionately hard on smaller companies....
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...Now she’ll pay an additional £145 charge on a mixed pallet of products for the store....
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...She finds that between 2018 and 2023 total UK exports (volumes, to both EU and non-EU) of pharmaceutical products were down 11 per cent; chemicals and chemicals products down 19 per cent; and electrical...
...UK government plans to introduce labels to promote homegrown food products, including the high animal welfare standards used to produce them, have sparked a ministerial row across Whitehall....
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...Turkey formed a customs union with the EU in 1995 allowing free movement of industrial and processed food products....
...First, he says budget cuts and restructuring at the UK regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), have led to a doubling of wait times to get generic medicines approved....
...With the correct regulation, the group argued, the UK could become “one of few lucrative worldwide hubs” for CBD products....
...and sustainable product design....
...A Survation poll for Best for Britain, the pro-EU pressure group, found that almost one in five consumers said they were less likely to buy products labelled “Not for EU”....
...The study also showed that the CBAM, which imposes a tax on a range of carbon-intensive products, will significantly drive up the price of electricity traded between the UK and the EU via interconnector...
...analysis by Goldman Sachs into the effects of leaving the EU single market, entitled “The Structural and Cyclical Costs of Brexit,” which estimates that Brexit has lopped five per cent off UK gross domestic product...
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...So it is simply not possible to offload these products at the border,” he said....
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