New Brexit border checks to cost business £320mn a year

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

66% : Labour has promised that it will seek a veterinary agreement with the EU if it wins power at the next election, which trade experts have said could reduce the levels of paperwork and border checks in both directions if it was based on sufficiently close alignment with EU rules.
61% : But Sam Lowe, trade expert at Flint Global, said the EU and the UK would need to agree to a dynamically aligned "Swiss-style" vet deal -- where the UK automatically followed EU rules and submitted to elements of EU legal oversight -- in order to remove the need for export health certificates.
56% : Creasy said the controls represented additional costs for businesses as a result of Brexit, not a "saving" and urged the government to urgently rethink its approach.
52% : Planned new post-Brexit border controls on animal and plant products imported from the EU will cost businesses an estimated £330mn a year in additional red tape charges, the government has admitted.
52% : In her letter to Stella Creasy, the chair of the Labour Movement for Europe, the minister said that checks were required because the lack of a border since Brexit has "made it more challenging to intervene to combat threats to animal, plant and human health".
50% : In contrast to previous Conservative governments that have delayed introducing a border, Neville-Rolfe added that the new border was essential to protect against diseases such as African swine fever that are prevalent in parts of the EU.

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