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A leading food services company has expressed concern that GB suppliers are deciding that trading in Northern Ireland is not worth the hassle of extra Brexit bureaucracy.
Andrew Lynas, managing director of Coleraine-based Lynas Foodservice, told MPs that buying mozzarella cheese from one of his long-standing suppliers in England now requires eight separate processes under the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Prior to the protocol coming into effect at the end of December, he said there were no checks required.
Mr Lynas was among business representatives giving evidence to the Northern Ireland Affairs Committee on Wednesday on the implications of the extra red tape required by the contentious arrangements governing Irish Sea trade post-Brexit.
It achieves that by moving regulatory and customs checks to the Irish Sea, specifically on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from Great Britain.
The movement of agri-food goods are particularly tightly regulated.
Mr Lynas said he had already changed 25 GB suppliers as a consequence of the protocol and was having to re-orientate his supply chains toward Ireland and the rest of Europe.
He said a GB company that he buys food from to fulfil his contract supplying Northern Ireland schools is charging him an extra £150 per load to cover administrative costs.
“He’s saying: ‘It is just so difficult for me to supply you that I have to charge you more money, ” said Mr Lynas.
Great Britain suppliers deciding that trading in Northern Ireland is now too much hassle after Brexit
Andrew Lynas, managing director of Coleraine-based Lynas Foodservice, told MPs that buying mozzarella cheese from one of his long-standing suppliers in England now requires eight separate processes under the Northern Ireland Protocol
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