Delays importing and exporting goods to and from the EU have worsened since Brexit was introduced at the start of the year and will result in stock shortages and price rises for consumers, according to a report.
The survey comes as one of the UK’s largest #chemical producers, BASF, reveals it has experienced “substantial friction” from the new trade barriers caused by withdrawal from the EU.
In a submission to the #Scottish parliament ahead of a committee hearing on Brexit on Thursday it said its #biopesticide business “has not exported successfully from the UK during January”.
It said product losses had been high and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs had been unable to answer “standard phytosanitary questions the industry warned of over two years ago” with hold-ups resulting in “damaged and unusable” products reaching the customer.
It reported that drivers were being forced to sleep in their trucks for days at the UK-Irish border and lorry loads were being turned back from their journey to the EU because paperwork and mixed loads “seem to flummox port officials”.
And in an indication that Brexit is not a teething problem, it sad initial optimism about tariffs “has largely disappeared”.
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