Exports to EU plummet by 41 per cent in first month after Brexit with seafood trade hit hard
dailyrecord.co.uktransition period.The export of food and live animals to the EU plummeted by a massive 64 per cent in January, the figures show, mainly because of strict checks by the EU.The Scottish Seafood Association has reported that sign-offs on consignments are now taking six times longer than previously.The government stats also revealed a 2.9 per cent drop in GDP, the nation’s overall wealth, in the same month and a fall in imports.Labour Shadow Chancellor Anneliese Dodds said: “Today’s figures confirm that under the Conservatives we’ve had the worst economic crisis of any major economy.“Rather than securing the recovery, Rishi Sunak’s budget last week risked weakening it through a combination of pay cuts and tax rises, and a looming cut to social.
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