Chief Executive of British Meat Exporters Association (BMPA) Nick Allen. Following the release of figures by the UK Food and Drink Federation which revealed that food and drink exports from Britain to the EU collapsed in January, the British Meat Processors Association (BMPA) has warned that costs of up to £120m (€140m) annually will make exporting prohibitive. The association also published a step-by-step guide on the extra bureaucracy that is involved with exporting compared with when the UK was part of the EU single market. Figure 1 shows that, before Brexit, sending a pork chop to Paris was a 10-minute administration procedure to create a consignment note to accompany the delivery.