REVEALED: Real cost of joining EU's Customs Union as Britons issued warning that food price would be 'dearer'

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : Non-EU exports even before Brexit grew more quickly than sales to the EU.
64% : "Our trade has been expanding well with non-EU; the bigger part of our total, helped by some good new trade Agreements we could only negotiate and sign once out of the EU.
56% : Ahead of the UK-EU summit later this month, an analysis by Brexit Facts4EU, Stand for Our Sovereignty, and The Campaign for an Independent Britain has laid bare the cost of a realignment on the Customs Union.
54% : Red kidney beans currently face a zero per cent tariff under the UK's arrangements, compared with a standard EU third-country duty of 17.6 per cent, the analysis found.
54% : At the same time, UK agricultural exports to the EU currently face long border days and require Export Health Certificates, which typically cost between £113 and £200 per certificate.
54% : We would end up poorer, importing more and dearer EU goods, food and energy," he declared.
51% : Fresh apples are another example, with the UK applying a zero per cent tariff to certain imports while the EU imposes a nine per cent base tariff.
51% : Raw cane sugar could also become more expensive, with Facts4EU claiming that EU duties could translate into an overall import tax of between 56 and 72 per cent, compared with zero-rated imports under a UK tariff quota.
51% : Responding to the report, a Government spokesman said: "There has been no proposal to rejoin the Customs Union. "Instead, we are building an ambitious, close relationship with the EU that will add up to £9billion a year to our economy, support industry and create more opportunities for young people across the UK. "Far from increasing prices, our agri-food and drink trade deal will end the costly paperwork tax that has harmed businesses and pushed up supermarket prices on everyday items like sugar, apples and beans," they added.
49% : Nevertheless, Lord Redwood rejected claims that closer economic ties with the EU would necessarily improve Britain's trading position.
48% : "When the UK left the EU Customs Union, we removed tariffs completely on 2,000 products or 21 per cent of our imports, and cut them on another 4,747 or 50 per cent of foreign goods," Lord Redwood explained.
48% : We were made to impose them to protect EU producers at the expense of our consumers.
48% : "Today we are living through a surge in the cost of living so the last thing we should be doing is imposing EU tariffs on so many things to put up prices," he insisted.
47% : The research, drawing on HMRC customs data and the EU's Taric tariff, warns that closer alignment with the EU's external levies regime could leave British consumers paying more for a range of grocery staples.
47% : The direction the UK will take towards the EU remains to be seen, with the Prime Minister saying he was "not prepared to revisit the red lines in our manifesto" regarding the bloc.
45% : Mr Burnham has insisted that he would seek no major change in Britain's relationship with the EU this Parliament, amid speculation he could call an early General Election.
42% : These costs are high for British farming and businesses, as 58 per cent of all UK agricultural exports go to the EU and are therefore subject to these restrictions.
41% : The report also warned that the EU introduced variable weekly tariffs on certain imported agricultural products, arguing that this could create additional uncertainty and administrative costs for British retailers.
39% : Their laws, taxes and tariffs made us import too much and export too little.
37% : "All the time we were in the EU we ran big deficits.

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