Last week, Britain took the unilateral decision to extend the grace period for checks on goods in order to give firms more time to adjust.
The EU has since threatened legal action against the UK and claimed the move could breach the Brexit divorce deal.
Additional checks and health certificates for animal product were due to come into force on April 1, but have been delayed for six months.
Mr Lewis has defended the UK’s decision to extend the grace period and insisted Government is working towards a solution.
Brandon Lewis has said British sausages will not pose a threat to EU markets (Image: GETTY)
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Brexit represented the first occasion a country has left the EU in its current form, sending shockwaves through Europe. The UK s decision coincided with rising euroscepticism in some of the EU s biggest member states, and sparked speculation over who could be next to leave the bloc. In 2017, Dutch pollster Maurice de Hond undertook a survey in which 56 percent of Dutch people were in favour of leaving the EU if there was a referendum tomorrow. This led to Robert Oulds, Directo
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Shane Brennan, the lobby group’s chief executive, said UK exporters “continue to face a hard border with all its costs and uncertainties and see their equivalents continuing to benefit from de-facto unfettered access to their domestic market.”
Speaking of the decision to extend the grace period, he added: “It’s not clear how this action will give the EU an incentive to be more willing to discuss ways to reduce the burdens on UK exporters.”
In a statement issued earlier this week, Lord David Frost, the UK’s Brexit negotiator and now a member of the Cabinet, said: “As a sovereign trading nation outside the EU, we have freedom to take decisions in our national interest – and in the interest of our businesses.
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Brussels was slammed for harking back to the days of empire after it proposed insufficient measures to tackle overfishing of yellowfin tuna, while being the largest fisher of the near threatened species. Smaller than its Atlantic and Pacific bluefin cousins, the yellowfin is considered one of the ocean s fastest and strongest predators. The species is massively overfished in the Indian Ocean, to the extent that supermarket brands Tesco, Co-op and Princes made the unpre