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The debate around the deal has highlighted the vast, festering schism over Brexit still running through British society

UK to offer Australian farmers tariff-free access - but not until 2037 Save Share London | Australian beef, lamb and sugarcane farmers face a potentially long wait to crack the UK market, with Britain reportedly looking for a 15-year phase-in period for agriculture in the nearly-completed free-trade deal. Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s spokesman did not deny local media reports on Friday that a 15-year security blanket would be thrown over British farmers, after senior ministers had earlier clashed over the free-trade agreement (FTA). Prime Minister Boris Johnson is keen to see an early ...

By Harry Holmes2021-01-07T14:57:00+00:00 The trade deal dodges punishing tariffs, but there are plenty of changes for the UK food industry to adapt to, despite little notice It went down to the wire, but a UK-EU trade agreement is finally in place. The impacts will touch almost every corner of the food industry, yet the deal’s full implications will not be understood for months, if not years. Perhaps most vitally, the deal avoids punishing tariffs that could have pushed average food prices up 5%, according to Tesco chairman John Allan. Given the majority of the UK’s food imports come from...