Food: UK Trade with EU
(asked on 24th October 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether any new checks are proposed for imported food from the EU after 29 March 2019.
Answered by
David Rutley
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office)
This question was answered on 30th October 2018
There would be no change on the day the UK leaves the EU to current controls of imports of animal products or high risk food for imports direct from the EU.
The Government is currently considering what controls should be applied to imports in the future, beyond our immediate exit from the EU.