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Oorspronkelijk geplaatst door Hoofdstraat
Waarom gaan er voedsel en medicijnen te kort zijn? Onder WTO blijft alles draaien, de EU kan bedrijven niet verbieden te exporteren naar de UK. Leg dat eens uit.
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Omdat de onvoorspelbare duur van vertragingen bij de douane en checkpoints dat zal veroorzaken. Die duur kan een paar uur zijn maar ook een paar dagen.
Voor verse voedselproducten en bvb. kortlevende radio-isotopen die nodig zijn bij kankerbehandelingen zijn die onvoorspelbare wachttijden mogelijk fataal.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...-a8750466.html
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Leading supermarkets, including Sainsbury’s, Asda and Waitrose, are among a host of large retailers to warn MPs that a no-deal Brexit in March will see items disappear from supermarket shelves and could put the UK’s food security at risk.
Nine senior executives signed an open letter to MPs written by the British Retail Consortium (BRC) on Monday urging the government to prevent crashing out of the EU.
A disorderly Brexit and trading under World Trade Organisation (WTO) terms would cause “significant disruption” and push up food prices, the group warned.
Signatories the letter, which also include the bosses of Marks & Spencer, McDonald’s UK, Lidl, Co-op, Pret a Manger and KFC, warned that the timing of Brexit on 29 March made problems more acute.
Nine in 10 lettuces sold by the group of companies at this time of year are imported from the EU, along with 80 per cent of tomatoes and 70 per cent of soft fruit.
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-47470864
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Supermarkets themselves have warned that there could be empty shelves and higher prices.
And Bank of England governor Mark Carney has said that, in a worst-case scenario, our shopping bills could increase by 10%.
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About three-quarters of the medicines and most of the clinical products we use come from or via the EU.
The government says the main risk to supply is reduced traffic flow between the ports of Calais and Dover or Folkestone.
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