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MEMBERS of Parliament have called for urgent action to remove export barriers four months into the disastrous hard Brexit engineered and executed by Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his associates. The MPs wrote that “businesses exporting seafood and meat to the European Union have faced substantial new red tape requirements and checks at the border, known as non-tariff barriers, where previously there were none”. It is lamentable that the border records system is not digitised, and that the wrong colour of ink on a form could lead to problems of the kind that end with full shipments being lost. The Brexit Impact Report came from the House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee, and it stated that despite having some knowledge Brexit was coming, the Government’s guidance was “not sufficiently timely, targeted or joined-up”. Six of the cross-party committee s 11 members are Tories, incidentally.
Victor Chesnutt has set out proposals to address problems relating to the NI protocol.
The movement of pedigree bulls from NI to sales in Britain has been “wiped out” due to new rules on livestock movements, the president of Ulster Farmers’ Union (UFU) has said.
According to UFU president Victor Chestnutt, there has been a 90% reduction in the number of NI-origin livestock presented at recent bull sales in Carlisle and a similar decline was seen at Stirling.
“In 2019, there were 120 bulls from 37 [NI] exhibitors at Stirling. This year, four bulls travelled from three exhibitors. That trade has been wiped out,” he said.
New Zealand-style agri-food deal would help NI
By John Campbell
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image captionBrexit trade arrangements have caused disruption at Northern Ireland s ports
A New Zealand-type agri-food agreement between the UK and EU would be really helpful for reducing Irish Sea border checks, MPs have been told.
The comment was made by Shanker Singham, a member of the government-backed consortium which helps firms trade across the sea border.
He said while it would reduce checks it would not remove all paperwork.
He said the only way to remove all of the checks and processes would be for the UK to be in the EU single market.
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