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The British Retail Consortium (BRC), the National Farmers unio of England and Wales (NFU) and the Food and Drink Federation (FDF), has issued the below joint statement to Government officials highlighting core objectives and priorities for UK trade policy.
The statement addresses the strategic importance for the UK of the food supply chain and builds consensus around a number of priority areas for trade. The food supply chain not only employs almost four million people and generates over £100 billion of value for the economy each year, but keeps the nation fed: ensuring consumers have access to a wide range of nutritional, quality foods at affordable prices.
Joint statement on trade
The UKs food supply chain - farmers, food and drink manufacturers and retailers - keeps the nation fed, ensuring consumers have access to a wide range of nutritional, quality foods at affordable prices. As the process of leaving the EU develops, the food supply chain will work together to ensure that our consumers continue to enjoy great quality, choice and value.
The UK food supply chain employs 3.9m people from farming through manufacturing to retail and food service and generates £108bn in value.
Much of the food supply chain is domestically based, and our organisations are committed to domestic production that is competitive and profitable and fully meets the demands of British consumers.
Nevertheless, we cannot operate in isolation. Our farmers need imported feed and inputs and they need access to other markets for their products, especially wher demand for these in the UK is insufficient. Our food and drink manufacturers rely on exports to grow their businesses and imports to complement their use of domestically produced ingredients and raw materials. Our retailers need access to a full range of goods all year round to balance seasonality and meet consumer demand.
The regulatory framework that governs this international trade therefore matters to all of us, both in strengthening and supporting UK producers in domestic and foreign markets, and in affording UK consumers and the agri-food and drink industry the benefits of freer trade with overseas partners.
Currently, that framework is determined by the EU, internally through the Single Market and Customs unio, externally through the EUs Common Commercial Policy. The Prime Minister has made clear that these arrangements will change when the UK leaves the EU.
The new framework for the UKs trading relations will be determined in part through negotiation with the EU, in part through negotiations with other countries and in part by the UK acting alone. In these distinct areas we call on the government to adopt an approach that will ensure stability and continuity for agri-food and drink businesses by:
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