Brexit working?

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*British farmers export no beef to Australia under UK’s first post-Brexit FTA
Australian farmers, meanwhile, have managed to export 1,700 tonnes of beef to the UK, according to the Department of Business and Trade"

"Liz Webster, a cattle and arable farmer from Wiltshire who launched Save British Farming, told NationalWorld: “British Beef is screwed unless we ditch these bad deals”.

“No wonder Australia laughed their socks off at us when the deal was sealed – laughing all the way to the bank.”

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The context is the FTA (alleged) between the UK and Australia

"British farmers export no beef to Australia under UK’s first post-Brexit FTA
Australian farmers, meanwhile, have managed to export 1,700 tonnes of beef to the UK, according to the Department of Business and Trade"

She, is a farmer. In Wiltshire.

and with just a very quick look it appears our Liz is not just 'a farmer from Wiltshire' is she?

We'll just put this story down as yet another piece of disingenuous information on your part shall we?

Link?

How about. "Bob Taylor, a farmer from Cornwall says that the Australian FTA is working very well for him"........it means nothing does it.

You keep saying it, but we need facts!

What report?

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www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/brexit-european-id-card-tourism-b2514433.html

"British Meat Processors Association 17 Clerkenwell Green, London, EC1R 0DP Tel: 020 7329 0776 Email: info@britishmeatindustry.org Website: britishmeatindustry.org
Rt Hon. Kemi Badenoch MP Secretary of State for the Department for Business and Trade Department for Business and Trade 3 Whitehall Place London SW1A 2HP

Dear Secretary of State 6th March 2024 We are writing to seek urgent assistance in relation to meat export opportunities to Australia. As you will be well aware, the UK has reached a comprehensive free trade agreement which has granted Australia significant duty-free quota volumes of beef and sheep meat. This has been a source of considerable consternation among UK farmers on the basis that these volumes are a potential threat to the stability of the domestic market with the risk that these products undercut domestic livestock prices. Notwithstanding this, our members are always looking proactively for business opportunities and seeing if they can also benefit reciprocally. There are UK operators in Australia right now trying to do this and they have indeed identified opportunities to export beef products to that market only to find that they are unable do to so as currently Australia will not permit the import of UK beef or sheep meat without undertaking a protracted approval process which, put simply, means that Australia considers UK beef and lamb not safe to import unless and until we prove otherwise. Conversely, as part of the Border Target Operating Model, the UK has listed Australian Lamb as ‘low risk’ meaning that they do not even need to provide an export health certificate (EHC) and their beef as ‘medium risk’ where the UK’s new simplified EHC can be used. Most importantly, the UK has granted this unilaterally without requiring that Australia go through any sort of country or site approval process and without any attempt at trying to secure reciprocity. We would ask that this is addressed urgently and that the Government requests that Australia reciprocates and allows the import of UK beef and lamb without preconditions. If needed this can be done on the basis of pre-listing, allowing trade to commence with audits taking place later and regularly thereafter in the normal manner. Again, we feel UK farmers would be deeply concerned if it emerged that we are prepared to import Australian meat and meat products without restriction but are unable to export to that market despite there being an FTA.

These business opportunities require speedy action without which competitors from other countries will take the business so we would ask for a response by return assuring us that immediate steps will be taken to ensure that the UK can ship meat and meat products to Australia without delay.

Yours sincerely, Nick Allen Chief Executive Officer

And

"Why should the UK allow EU people to enter the country using an id card?"

Because we did and now we don't. The impact on visitor numbers impacting the tourism values economically.
What's the gain?