Political action is required to resolve the problems facing British animal feed businesses that export feed materials and finished feeds to the EU and Northern Ireland.
British feed companies are seeing lost revenue, delays and increased costs sending goods to Northern Irish and EU customers, warned industry body, the Agricultural Industries Confederation (AIC), which referenced the
onset of such difficulties in emailed comments to this site in January.
The export situation has deteriorated [since mid-January] in that what we initially considered were teething problems are now seen as issues over non-harmonised interpretation of EU sanitary and phyto-sanitary requirements and some extremely complex issues surrounding the export of feeds containing animal byproducts, James McCulloch, head of feed sector, AIC, told us today.
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He had just sealed the Brexit withdrawal deal with the EU.
At a Brussels press conference, the prime minister hailed the agreement as marking the beginning of a very exciting time for the UK. I want to stress that this is a great deal for our country, for the UK, he said. And what it means is that we in the UK can come out of the EU as one United Kingdom - England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland, together. And it means we can decide our future together, we can take back control, as the phrase goes, of our money, our borders, our laws, together.
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Amazon has stopped selling wines, beers and spirits to its customers in Northern Ireland as it wrestles with new customs rules post-Brexit. The online retailer is concerned that excise duty - a tax - will now have to be paid twice on all shipments of alcohol which are sent from the British mainland across the Irish Sea.Amazon’s suspended orders in Northern Ireland at the end of December, shortly after the UK/EU trade deal was published, and the decision is unlikely to be reversed until the company obtains clarity on the tax situation from HMRC. One Amazon customer from Belfast, who didn’t want to be identified, told ITV News his subscription for a delivery of whisky every three months had been cancelled. “My biggest issue is they will no longer supply any alcohol to Northern Ireland, despite me being a Prime customer and having bought hundreds of items over the past fifteen years,” he said.