Brexit – Page 8
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Analysis & Features
Why are key British food exports in such steep decline?
Inflation has forced consumers to cut spend, while Brexit red tape has hit SMEs. Businesses are hoping non-EU trade deals make an impact
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News
Top industry heads join government’s new high-profile trade board
FDF chief Karen Betts and former Arla Foods CEO Ash Amirahmadi join an array of high-profile business leaders
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News
Heightened demand for festive retail workers set to outstrip supply
More than half of retail managers said they were hiring more festive seasonal workers this year, while nearly as many said it had been harder to find them
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Sean Dowling Jones to head Gist’s new exports team
The M&S-owned logistics company has recently set up a new international team
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British food and drink exports down as inflation takes toll
Value sales increased but overall export volumes were down in the first half of 2023
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UK allowing harmful pesticides use since Brexit, says group
Pesticides Action Network has released new data that reveals 36 pesticides that are banned in the EU are permitted for use in the UK
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Green transformation in farming urged to save Britain from food crisis
The report argued regenerative farming could improve food security, help tackle climate change, advance the UK’s biodiversity and boost profits for British farmers
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Fishing stocks at ‘alarming’ levels due to ‘unscientific catch limits’
Of the wider total of 104 stocks analysed in the Taking Stock report, over a third were being overfished
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Comment & Opinion
What will crumble first, Defra’s buildings or its waste strategy?
The last thing Defra needs is question marks over the safety of its buildings
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News
Whisky distillers get new guidelines from British Standards Institution
The standard aims to help ‘both established brands and new market entrants demonstrate quality and authenticity’
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Food safety fears raised over NZ beef entering UK
The New Zealand and Australian FTAs were the UK’s first major post-Brexit trade deals
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News
Industry calls for UK-wide ‘Not for EU’ label plans to be scrapped
An FDF survey found eight in 10 of the country’s biggest suppliers opposed a UK-wide approach to the post-Brexit requirements
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News
‘We Eat Balanced’ AHDB marketing campaign to focus on ‘British’
AHDB had previously been restricted from using ‘British’ because of EU State Aid Rules, however, post-Brexit UK guidance opened the way for the switch
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News
Industry reacts to Brexit border strategy delay
Businesses welcomed the three-month delay to the Border Target Operating Model rollout
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Brexit border checks: government confirms further delays
The rollout of the new border strategy will now be pushed to January 2024
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Labour shortages cost food & drink manufacturers £1.4bn in the past year
Labour shortages cost the sector £192m in the second quarter of the year alone, the FDF said
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Asda’s Northern Ireland stores first to use ‘Not For EU’ labels
The post-Brexit labelling requirement is not officially enforced until October
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Labour demands trade clarity over ‘chaotic’ handling of Brexit border checks delay
The UK was set to roll out its new trade strategy, also known as the Border Target Operating Model (TOM), in October
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Comment & Opinion
Britain can’t grow its way out of Europe mega-weather food supply threat
This year’s soggy British summer may well have presented a different argument, but Europe’s heatwaves pose an existential threat to food
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News
Brexit key cause of exports decline, government data shows
Forty-three per cent of exporters of goods and services said they had seen a decrease in trade, compared with 26% who said their exports had increased