Catherine Barnard on Times Radio: Food price fears as Brexit import charges revealed
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- Опубликовано: 3 апр 2024
- Via the BBC
The government has revealed how much companies will have to pay to import foods from the EU due to Brexit.
Small imports of products such as fish, salami, sausage, cheese and yoghurt will be subject to fees of up to £145 from 30 April, according to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA).
The Cold Chain Federation said the new charges would hit food prices.
The government said the fees would pay for "world-class border facilities".
The fee, known as the "common user charge", will apply to animal products, plants and plant products entering the UK from the EU through the Port of Dover and the Eurotunnel at Folkestone.
It will be charged per type of good imported - the "commodity line" - and capped at £145 for mixed consignments. Individual products will face charges of up to £29. It will apply to goods deemed low, medium and high risk.
The Cold Chain Federation's chief executive Phil Pluck said the fee would have to be passed on to "either the EU importer, the smaller UK retailer, or the UK consumer".
The Common User Charge is for recouping the cost of the facility only. The checks on documents and goods will be done by Port Health Authorities, who will be charging on top of the CUC. So the cost will be more than £145. So the actual cost be in some cases will a lot more. Seems many don't seem to understand this.
You are trading under WTO rules now and imports from EU need to be checked in similar ways as other imports. So its an active decision by UK to add costs to consumers known when setteling the agreements with EU. A clear consequence of Brexit!
Open borders to rank meat.
It will be better for everyone if the small producers in the EU don't bother sending their stuff to the UK.
How?
@@nicks4934 How? didn't you listen?
So the winners here are the big supermarket companies as they can absorb this cost and put the smaller companies out if business.
Whats so hard to get your head around.UK voted to leave EU.UK signed the Trade and Cooperation Agreement with the EU.UK left the Single Market and Customs Union. UK became a third country. The EU is trading with the UK as per the terms of the TCA.Simple really.
Agh the cost of sovereignty never mind how sad.
Sovereignty never had been cheap. Giving up control of it should never be surrendered.
Luckily I was able to feed my family last night on sovereignty
It tasted like gammon and stupidity, but at least we could eat it 🙄🙄
@@Sjb-on5xt and all EU members agree with you, that is why they have not given up their souvereignty.
@@edwardbernthal160 I agree they've not surrendered sovereignty, but they've ceded sovereign control on vast swathes of national policy and laws.
A bit like owning a car, which you can never use or drive yourself.
You pay for the upkeep, road tax, Mot, insurance and put petrol in the tank, but the keys are kept by the driver and the vehicle is kept on the driver's driveway, only to go where the driver wants.
Do you see the difference between sovereignty and sovereign control?
Have you ever worked for a supermarket??? Supermarkets import goods by the 20-ton container load. They do not import a single consignment of 25kg of cheese, that would be ridiculous! Small independent supermarkets get their food from the wholesaler who also imports by the container load. At these volumes the added cost will be insignificant!
Not for delis. More friction. Less choice.
@@nicks4934 the delis would get their supplies from the wholesalers.
@@nicks4934 wholesalers my friend.
@@nicks4934 Most delis sell locally produced goods. They also purchase from gourmet, artisan, and organic wholesalers
taking back control :))))))
Looks like the UK is turning right back with tit for tat measures. Why should the EU get a free ride? The EU is charging the UK to export into the EU, and the EU export much more than the UK does vice versa.
Because over 50% of our food comes from the eu
Fancy a famine
Remember now: “we hold all the cards!” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Jesus brexiteers are dumb
So, so dumb 🤣🤣🤣😘😘😘
Frost agreed to this s show
free ride? EU counties can sell to each other without check, hinderance or tarrifs, that is a free ride. Exporting to 3 rd countries, of which the UK is now one of them, involves costs and paper work, that is no free ride. Who would be the easiest countries to tade with, an existing member or an ex member?
@@edwardbernthal160 being an EU member is no free ride.
It comes at a huge cost in loss of sovereign control to bureaucrats, no one voted for and can't be removed at any ballot box.
It depends on what you value, being able to trade a few trinkets easily between each member state, losing your birthright and any resemblance of democracy in the process or paying a fee.
@@Sjb-on5xt absolute tosh chum.