{"id":378248,"date":"2025-08-27T18:06:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378248\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T18:06:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T18:06:11","slug":"uk-eu-deal-must-unburden-business-and-cut-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/378248\/","title":{"rendered":"UK-EU Deal Must Unburden Business and Cut Costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\"><strong>Responding to today\u2019s speech by EU Relations Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds \u2013 William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at the British Chambers of Commerce said:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cA strong agri-food deal will remove costs, red tape and delays for UK businesses trading in food and plant products with the European Union.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cFirms have spent staggering \u00a360m a year on export health certificates since 2021. Removing these costs will reduce inflationary pressures and make supply chains more secure.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cA permanent deal with the EU can\u2019t come soon enough for UK firms. In the talks ahead ministers must deliver a deal that truly unburdens business and cuts costs. Consumers will then reap the benefits in their shopping baskets.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"line-height: 12.75pt; margin: 0cm 0cm 1.5pt 0cm;\">\u201cMaking trade with the EU quicker, cheaper and simpler is crucial to boosting economic growth in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Responding to today\u2019s speech by EU Relations Minister, Nick Thomas-Symonds \u2013 William Bain, Head of Trade Policy at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-378248","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115102061875834191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378248\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}