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Scottish seed spud producers hear their product is being missed

Potatoes export problems cost firms £1 5m and risk future of trade

Potatoes export problems cost firms £1 5m and risk future of trade

Food industry voices on their hopes and fears as Brexit becomes reality

Food industry voices on their hopes and fears as Brexit becomes reality by Julia Bryce and Brian Stormont December 31 2020, 10.20am © PA For brilliant recipes, the best of local produce, fresh ideas and insight, subscribe to our weekly Food and Drink Newsletter. Thank you for signing up to our Food and Drink Newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up After the Prime Minister Boris Johnson hailed the UK’s Brexit deal with the European Union as his “Christmas present to the nation” we found out how it affects local exporters and producers. When the Brexit deal was finally ‘done’ on Christmas Eve, there was widespread relief in the food industry that tariffs on exports would be avoided.

How Scottish seed potato exports to the EU got left behind by Brexit

Updated: December 24, 2020, 3:53 pm © DCT Media For brilliant recipes, the best of local produce, fresh ideas and insight, subscribe to our weekly Food and Drink Newsletter. Thank you for signing up to our Food and Drink Newsletter. Something went wrong - please try again later. Sign Up Sandy McGowan, a director at Scotland’s largest seed potato exporting business, reveals the cost to the industry of being denied third country status by the EU. While all eyes have been on arrangements for fishing and livestock exports in the Brexit trade deal, few spared a thought for the humble seed potato. This seldom-discussed but valuable Scottish product has not made the list of food exports continuing to the EU having been denied third-country equivalence – the process whereby the European Commission decides whether a non-EU country’s regulatory, supervisory and enforcement regime is equivalent to its own.

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