Small wholesalers could be paying an extra £60,000 a year for new Brexit inspections, hiking up prices for the supermarket shop, LBC has been told.
Small wholesalers could be paying an extra £60,000 a year for new Brexit inspections, hiking up prices for the supermarket shop, LBC has been told. After three years of delays, physical checks on animal products and plants will begin on imports coming into the UK from Europe on Tuesday.Meat, fish, dairy, plants and flowers arriving in Dover and Folkestone will now be inspected at Border Control Points, including at a 230-acre site in Sevington in Kent, under new government plans.
"We have built supply chains that get goods from A to B very quickly and that process has now been comprised." Richard McKenna runs Provender Nurseries in Swanley - importing plants from all over Europe. He said any delays in the inspection process could mean they’d have to throw plants away. "We’ve got two to three days maximum at the back of a truck so if trucks are delayed by 24 hours, by the time they arrive, they could be absolutely destroyed.
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