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<blockquote data-quote="le bon paysan" data-source="post: 7394873" data-attributes="member: 104"><p>James Withers, Chief Exec, Scottish Food and Drink Federation: </p><p>“There have been catastrophic decisions taken to create enormous non-tariff barriers. We have ended up with a trading regime which is complex, costly, slow, prone to break down at its best.”</p><p></p><p>Withers continues “At its worst some food exporters have been shut out of the EU market altogether in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Unfortunately it’s the very predictable outcome of trying to test a multi billion £ trading system in real time in the middle of a pandemic.”</p><p></p><p>Withers is excoriating about the UK government’s approach: “We asked, we pleaded for a grace period. Those pleas fell on deaf ears...Instead we got a deal on Christmas Eve, a final border operating model on NYE and a lot of businesses feel they were thrown to the wolves the next day.”</p><p></p><p>“If we listed everything what has gone wrong we’d just run out of time. It’d be dark very soon...The biggest single challenge we have right now is denial, denial from the UK government in particular on the scale of the problem.”</p><p></p><p>“We can’t accept that these are just teething problems, or even the statement from Defra this week that trade continues to flow smoothly because it doesn’t. It’s not flowing smoothly and it hasn’t done for five weeks"!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="le bon paysan, post: 7394873, member: 104"] James Withers, Chief Exec, Scottish Food and Drink Federation: “There have been catastrophic decisions taken to create enormous non-tariff barriers. We have ended up with a trading regime which is complex, costly, slow, prone to break down at its best.” Withers continues “At its worst some food exporters have been shut out of the EU market altogether in Scotland and the rest of the UK. Unfortunately it’s the very predictable outcome of trying to test a multi billion £ trading system in real time in the middle of a pandemic.” Withers is excoriating about the UK government’s approach: “We asked, we pleaded for a grace period. Those pleas fell on deaf ears...Instead we got a deal on Christmas Eve, a final border operating model on NYE and a lot of businesses feel they were thrown to the wolves the next day.” “If we listed everything what has gone wrong we’d just run out of time. It’d be dark very soon...The biggest single challenge we have right now is denial, denial from the UK government in particular on the scale of the problem.” “We can’t accept that these are just teething problems, or even the statement from Defra this week that trade continues to flow smoothly because it doesn’t. It’s not flowing smoothly and it hasn’t done for five weeks"! [/QUOTE]
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