The AIC has written to Cabinet Office minister Michael Gove over difficulties faced by British exporters of feed materials and finished feeds to the EU and Northern Ireland since January 1st. The sector’s problems reflect wider British export tensions with the EU. The...
January 1st 2021 saw the UK finally complete its transition out of the EU, four and a half years after the referendum. A ‘no-deal’ scenario - widely seen as ‘catastrophic’ for agriculture – was averted through the UK-EU Trade and Co-operation Agreement (TCA) signed at...
The announcement of an EU: UK trade deal late on Christmas Eve, subject to Parliamentary approval, has been broadly welcomed as ending over four years of uncertainty over future trading arrangements. The resolution comes just a week from the end of the withdrawal...
Ed Barker, the recently installed head of policy and external affairs at the AIC, says he would be surprised if the UK ends up without a trade deal when its EU withdrawal transition period ends on December 31st. He believes tariffs on imports from and exports to the...
A webinar featuring national agriculture spokesmen this week concluded that current government policy threatens to significantly downgrade UK agriculture as we know it. The webinar was organised by the Save British Farming movement. Defra minister George Eustice was...
Trade associations from across the UK economy, including the agrifood sector, have urged government to adopt a pragmatic approach in securing a UK-EU trade agreement before January 1st. At the same time, a separate approach from Northern Irish food chain businesses...