Ready for Brexit?

[fgc325j]

Poor quality meat? Merino is widely recognised by farmers in countries where Merinos are available as the best eating meat of all breeds. Fine textured, low sheer testing (high tenderness) and very flavoursome.
It may be of surprise to you that 2 Merino meat brands (18 month old animals from NZ mountain lands) have a large share of the restaurant hotel trade servicing NZ's burgeoning tourist industry because chefs receive the most compliments for those meals. The consumer is always right.

Ocado UK's largest and voted best on-line supermarket since 2010, has recently signed a large deal with NZ's Alliance Group (largest processing international trader of lamb in the world) for chilled SILERE Alpine Origin Merino, a part of Alliance brands under the "Pure South" logo.
Merino farmers cannot supply enough animals to fill contract space. This product commands a substantial premium. Poor quality? Yeah right.

I am happy to be corrected , i always thought the Merino had been bred over the years to produce
quality wool.

 

[Bury the Trash]

I am happy to be corrected , i always thought the Merino had been bred over the years to produce
quality wool.

They can be a bit fatty , would help explain the taste factor over a very lean piece of meat
They are Also slow growing....not normally grain fed ....

 

[Muck Spreader]

That seems to have been the problem with the EU, there seems to have been many things the Southern European states have been able to do that we are not..
Probably all down to interpretation of the rules, they looking for loopholes whilst this country has gold plated them,

Of coarse the UK can do trade deals with third counties and it does. The UK's biggest trade partner is the US, and has been for many years, is just a matter of the additional cost in the form of tariffs and making sure the product fully complies with the importing countries regulations. The EU can forbid you from exporting certain products or you may need special clearance, Hi-tech defence equipment for example. Nothing to do with special arrangements or gold plating.

 

[bobk]

Of coarse the UK can do trade deals with third counties and it does. The UK's biggest trade partner is the US, and has been for many years, is just a matter of the additional cost in the form of tariffs and making sure the product fully complies with the importing countries regulations. The EU can forbid you from exporting certain products or you may need special clearance, Hi-tech defence equipment for example. Nothing to do with special arrangements or gold plating.

Imagine how much trade the UK - US could do without tariffs .

 

[Highland Mule]

Imagine how much trade the UK - US could do without tariffs .

Lots, but why would we want to?

 

[bobk]

Lots, but why would we want to?

What a strange response .

 

[Highland Mule]

Of coarse the UK can do trade deals with third counties and it does. The UK's biggest trade partner is the US, and has been for many years, is just a matter of the additional cost in the form of tariffs and making sure the product fully complies with the importing countries regulations. The EU can forbid you from exporting certain products or you may need special clearance, Hi-tech defence equipment for example. Nothing to do with special arrangements or gold plating.

That’s probably not the EU specifically that would stop high tech defence. Many are through individual bilateral/ trilateral agreements. I’ve knowledge of one that was US/Germany/ France and Holland, for example.

 

[Highland Mule]

What a strange response .

Not at all - tariff free trading is not always a good thing - especially with one sided trade partnerships.

It would be lovely to sell £1,000,000 of haggis to the states, but not if it obligated us to receive their production subsidised food in exchange, and hence wiped out our beef industry. Tariffs are there to protect our home industry, as well as raise money for the exchequer.

 

[Muck Spreader]

Imagine how much trade the UK - US could do without tariffs .

Yes potently all one way, US to UK. Most of what we "export" to the US is not particularly price sensitive (with the exception of whisky, salmon etc) in the form of niche specialist services like hi-tec engineering, pharma solutions, banking etc. The US on the other hand has the ability to move in and totally dominate wholes sectors of the UK economy like healthcare, education, defence not to mention food. And the government will be more or less powerless to block this.

 

[Muck Spreader]

That’s probably not the EU specifically that would stop high tech defence. Many are through individual bilateral/ trilateral agreements. I’ve knowledge of one that was US/Germany/ France and Holland, for example.

Not my area, but as I understand it a defence contract with a third country would have to be approved by all the EU members as as per this Common Position policy agreement.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:335:0099:0103:en:PDF

 

[Highland Mule]

Not my area, but as I understand it a defence contract with a third country would have to be approved by all the EU members as as per this Common Position policy agreement.
https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2008:335:0099:0103:en:PDF

I had involvement in one protected contract and it most definitely didn’t need EU approval. It wasn’t pure defence, but very closely related.