8mo ago

UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs

www.theguardian.com

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But Farrand added the Guild is granted a special licence each year to import cheeses, and British cheesemakers complied with all the conditions.
On Friday morning, however, it became apparent that the cheeses hadn’t been cleared. “The reasons are unclear to me, even on Friday we were still fighting to get some clarity and clear instruction on what wasn’t right, but we had no success,” Farrand told the Observer yesterday.
The competition granted the correct paperwork, the British cheese makers complied with the paperwork, but the EU customs officials didn't do their job properly? That's basically what this quote implies.
- Lol, if only there was some way we could have some kind of agreement with close trading partners to not require customs checks.
  
  some sort of union perhaps...
  one that perhaps spans the continant of europe...
  i wonder what we'd call it
  
  While correct and leaving was stupid.
  This is a worldwide competition. And as such has procedures to allow entry from non EU nations.
  So it really is the one place where Brexit stupidity should not have left the UK at a disadvantage.
  Clearly something went wrong. And if the articles claim that the UK was trying to communicate with EU customs and identify that fault is correct. And no other nation fell into this issue.
  It seems like this may not be a one-off issue. But instead, something that increases the burden to UK traders beyond even our own stupidity. To the point where we can't even compete with other non EU nations within the EU.
  
  No! We need to form closer trade deals with a continent on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean. So that instead of driving, we can fly or use a ship. Allowing for the weather of course.
  
  Yea but that's not the reality of today, alas.
  What is plain is that the EU customs and border officials failed to do their job properly. For a bloc that goes on and on about "the rule of law" they sure do know when to apply the rule of law.
Sounds like they sent the cheeses too late. They could've been stuck in customs for any number of reasons.
- They really should have sent them by helicopter
  
  I also don't understand, why they didn't use an emergency cheese airdrop for backup.
Whatever fuck happened to UK, driving people into poverty last decade at rates that make US blush.
Sunlit uplands!
Brexit!¡!!!? FTW?
- Our cheeses are in a league of their own. They don't compete.
  
  Well it is a pretty small competition. Scotland, Wales, north Ireland, and the UK.

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