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Brexit: Lamb exporter to EU 'making virtually nothing'
- simonblack 6y agoThat's why Britain has to develop new markets, different from the EU. This is almost a mirror-image of what happened to Australian exporters, who lost their 'guaranteed' British market when Britain joined the Common Market about 50 years ago. Up till then, Britain counted on its 'colony' in Australia to provide the 'Motherland' with produce at very cheap prices. And Australia had counted on the 'Motherland' to take all those exports. There was the silly situation of British housewives paying only half as much for a pound of Australian butter as Australian housewives. Then, all of a sudden, Australian markets and profits were lost. And it took about 10 years of Australia promoting and selling to the Asian markets to regain the levels of exports that it had lost overnight.
- jfengel 6y agoWould new markets solve the problem? TFA describes paperwork delay, which may be a problem with any market. The point of the EU was to eliminate the borders by adopting common standards, both on food handling and on balancing economics. Any new market is going to be similarly careful about accepting foreign meat imports -- and is going to be further away.
- simonblack 6y agoTFA describes paperwork delay The delay is down mainly to people thinking of "Business as Usual" when the underlying infrastructure is now completely changed. The article also mentions that returns to producers are negated because of extra taxes and fees due to changed red tape, as well as delays.