The idea that Irish farmers and Irish businesses “would be able to pay a tariff and compete with the likes of South American goods into the UK market just wouldn’t work,” he told RTÉ’s Morning“It doesn’t take a whole lot, targeting 50, 60 container loads of the high value steak cuts into the UK market would be enough to drag the whole market base down and make it unviable for Irish farmers in the UK market,” he...
“We need the Commission to recognise that any interference with that trade into the UK would have a huge negative impact right across the whole European Commission and not just an Irish beef problem.Some rules must be found to ensure that Irish beef going to the UK are not affected by tariffs, he said, citing as precedent regulations currently covering New Zealand lamb quotas to the EU.
“In most other sectors you could see a position where businesses could forward sell or to fix prices coming into it, the Irish beef farmer has had to take a spot price for their beef,” he went on.However, Irish beef farmers have been unable to cut risks and are “in a really, really difficult position”, Mr Woods declared, but he warned that Irish suffering would end up being shared across the EU.
Ive got it! How about we extend A50 for 2 years & do the trade deal in parallel to the withdrawal agreement, like UK requested we should have done in the first place? You know, instead of the EU trying to use the border in Ireland as leverage against the UK.. Just a thought.
National Farmers Union boss Minette Batters: “it is appalling that we only now have this opportunity to [see the tariffs] - a fortnight before they could come into effect”...
Easiest response would be to encourage access to rEU27 countries markets