Environment Secretary George Eustice answered an urgent question in the House of Commons about the EU s restrictions on the trade in live bivalve molluscs.
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By Jayne McCormack
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Cabinet Office Minister Michael Gove has called for grace periods to be extended, to allow businesses more time to adapt to new Irish Sea border processes.
The EU s usual rules on customs and product standards are not yet being fully enforced at NI ports.
The first of the grace periods agreed by the UK and EU is set to expire at the end of March.
But speaking on Tuesday in the House of Commons, Mr Gove said there were serious problems with the NI Protocol that needed to be addressed.
Issues not teething problems
There are lots of positives for Northern Ireland businesses arising out of Brexit, but companies are also facing administration headaches due to new constraints imposed on the imports of goods from Great Britain.
Declan Billington is the chief executive of John Thompson and Sons, the largest animal feed processor in Northern Ireland (NI), employing around 200 people. We talked to him about the impact of UK’s new trading relationship with the EU on NI industry, notably the feed sector.
Companies in NI have a lot of new rules to wade through: “
You have a new free trade agreement between the UK and Europe and, sitting on top of that, you have the NI protocol with its own set of rules, another layer of complexity that needs to be navigated.”
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