Brexit red tape ramped up on British sausages destined for Northern Ireland
independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/sausages-...
independent.co.ukPosted Feb 22, 2021, 11:53 AM UTC
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independent.co.ukIt’s not ‘ramped up’, it’s always been there for 3rd countries to EU SM.
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It's almost as if being in the EU for agricultural products means they're in the EU for agricultural products. That can't be right can it?
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One thing always confused me - (Northern) Ireland is a net food exporter, especially meat, so why is lack of sausages being imported a problem?
Sounds like a nicer version of when Pritti Patel threatened to starve Irish people through Brexit ... https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-europe-46488479
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ROI figures, but would expect NI agriculture to be similar pattern. 210,000 Tonnes of Beef, Pork 2nd at 61,000 Tonnes, so pretty substantial.
https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-ti/irelandstradeingoods2018/meatexportsandimports2018/
And most of going to the UK. So maybe headline should have been "Burger and Banger shortage looms for England"
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Its a sidelines issue. NI is major agricultural so foodnprocessibg plants go up. Cheaper to send meat to NI for processing simply by having lower cost due to scalability this means that food plants in England don't run at capacity to deal with the English food production, overflow so to speak is, was always sent to NI.
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Ye can keep them, plenty of Denny's to go around over here.
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I know I sound like a broken record, but whatever:
It is not "red tape", exporting most food products into the EU Single Market has always required health certificates. Northern Ireland is in the SM for goods, the rest of the UK is not anymore.
It is actually very very simple.
The fact that this has been ignored, deflected, lied about and still is by both government and parts of Labour (who also talk about "red tape") does not change that.
This is actually a new and weird outcome of the fiasco. Raw sausage is basically never exported because of these rules, even within the common market. Ever wondered why you see Danish bacon on supermarket shelves but never sausage from Danish pork?
British-made raw, unfrozen sausage was, more or less, sold solely in the UK, including Northern Ireland, which of course wasn't an export - it was domestic production.
The reason this is weird now is not so much that the UK isn't in the EU common market anymore, so much that NI isn't in the UK domestic market any more.
I don't understand what is weird or new about it, it was known since December 2019 when Johnson presented his Withdrawal Agreement.
My point is that it's not like they were exporting sausage in any significant quantity to the common market before. It was a trade done almost entirely domestically, in large part because of these rules which were already in force, but did not apply to GB->NI, domestic trades.
But it got broken by the UK domestic market being shattered. Not the common market.
It’s incredible that media outlets from both sides are pushing the same narrative. Very concerning.