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EU SPS agreement will bring new costs and risk food security, warns trade group

Fresh Produce Consortium says although measures had been designed to ease certain aspects of UK-EU trade, the wider operational reality is that the burden is simply being shifted onto critical global supply routes

Jane Thynne
Head of News and Business
clock • 3 min read
The FPC has warned to the new EU-SPS rules will bring further cost burdens
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The FPC has warned to the new EU-SPS rules will bring further cost burdens

The Government's latest guidance on the proposed UK–EU sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) arrangements has revealed an increasingly politically driven and EU-focused approach to trade policy that risks imposing...

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