used to get in food service and deli counters. so that has been an upgrade. so it s not all doom and gloom. but the sales we made to export, we have yet to recover those. they could recover, i m sure, but it will take the government behaving like grown ups. mari; behaving like grown-ups. mary quicke, thank behaving like grown-ups. mary quicke, thank you behaving like grown-ups. mary quicke, thank you for - behaving like grown ups. mary quicke, thank you for talking to us today after telling us your story. mary quicke, farmer and artisan cheese maker in devon. if you d like to get in touch about this story or any of the stories we are talking about today, you can certainly do that, please, if for example you are a business owner and want to tell us about the impact of brexit on your business. do you agree with what the public accounts committee is saying? have there been more costs, paperwork and delays? or do you have a different point of view. please tell me on twitter @ anita bbc
quite technical. he goes on. however, the committee is right to note this year is affected by the new inward customs processes we brought in on the 1st ofjanuary. i wouldn t have done this, he says, but i lost the internal argument. but there is still time to think carefully before introducing full controls from july. he goes on, we have to put up with eu controls but we don t have to replicate them ourselves. we should have a light touch border to the whole world, thatis touch border to the whole world, that is a brexit opportunity. lord frost continuing to talk about the opportunities of brexit and saying that the report today by the commons public accounts committee is quite thin stuff, in his words. mary quicke runs a cheesemaking company in devon she told me about the impact of post brexit trading rules on her business.
down to the pandemic, but in that same time period, the exports eu states sent to germany rose by i6.8%. the uk government has put up 20 million pounds to help company transition, its known as the sme brexit support fund, but the committee found that only £6.7 million has been paid out. mary quicke is the owner of quicke s cheese box, it an artisan cheese company based in devon. let s talk about how business was before brexit and how it feels today. before brexit and how it feels toda . ., today. before brexit, we exported in total, not today. before brexit, we exported in total. notjust today. before brexit, we exported in total, notjust europe today. before brexit, we exported in total, notjust europe but today. before brexit, we exported in total, notjust europe but in - today. before brexit, we exported in total, notjust europe but in total, i total, notjust europe but in total, total, notjust europe but in total, to other countries, 40% of our cheese and now, not even t
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