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MINETTE BATTERS: I have huge admiration for farmers across the world, not least our cousins in Australia and New Zealand. But their farms are very different to ours and on a different scale.
Minette Batters, president of the National Farmers Union, says members are concerned
They fear Ms Truss s negotiators have agreed to tariff-free access to UK market in their haste to secure a deal before next month s G7 summit in Cornwall
Ms Truss s allies have dismissed the concerns, saying British farmers have nothing to fear from an Australian deal
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May 11, 2021
LONDON: Manufacturers based in Boris Johnson’s new freeports will not be able to enjoy the full benefits if they are exporting to a series of countries with which the UK has signed post-Brexit trade deals.
The Prime Minister and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have championed freeports – special economic zones offering tax breaks and lower tariffs – as a part of the Government’s “levelling up” agenda to spread economic growth and jobs across the country.
But Labour said a “catastrophic blunder” means manufacturers operating within freeports could face tariffs on their exports to key markets including Switzerland, Canada, Norway and Singapore, despite the UK’s free trade agreements with those countries.
Catastrophic freeports blunder denied by Government
Tariffs could be added to exports from the special economic zones
Passengers queue up to get on the Armorique at Plymouth Ferry Port (Image: Plymouth Herald)
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The Government has denied making a catastrophic blunder in its flagship plan to create Freeports around the English regions.