\u201cOverall, U.K. dairy \u2014 and cheesemakers in particular \u2014 have been presented with a worse deal than their EU competitors as a result of the U.S.-U.K. agreement,\u201d said Rod Addy, director general of the Provision Trade Federation, which represents British cheesemakers.<\/p>\n
The difference between U.K. and EU tariff rates \u201csuggests EU exporters, particularly [in] Ireland, may benefit relative to the U.K.,\u201d he added. \u201cGiven that cheddar accounts for roughly three quarters of all U.K. dairy exports, that is highly significant.\u201d<\/p>\n
The U.K. exported 9,855 metric tons of cheese and curd products in 2024 worth over \u00a375 million, data from the Britain\u2019s Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board shows. According to the latest data available for 2025, the U.K. exported around 4,365 metric tons between January and June worth over \u00a336 million.<\/p>\n
Coombe Castle International, a major exporter of cheese to the U.S., is among the British cheese businesses feeling the strain. Currently, the U.S. market makes up around a third of its business. But they now fear tariffs could reduce demand for their cheeses, amid increased competition from the EU.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt does look like we are now disadvantaged compared to Europe, and that\u2019s certainly going to hurt us when it comes to cheddar and butter, where we\u2019ve got direct competition in the EU,\u201d said Darren Larvin, Coombe Castle International\u2019s managing director.<\/p>\n
\u201cTariffs have come at the wrong time. We have a relatively high milk price, a weak dollar and prices are high with the cost of living. All of those put together mean it\u2019s quite tough at the moment. So we could really do without having any further costs.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cOverall, U.K. dairy \u2014 and cheesemakers in particular \u2014 have been presented with a worse deal than their…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5311],"tags":[3971,1213,802,346,1442,487,7478,2814,31314,12495,32,1396,1214,806,678,2441,5769,809,2661,84907,479,1201,6862,15,49,978,659],"class_list":{"0":"post-409381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-united-states","8":"tag-agriculture","9":"tag-americas","10":"tag-brexit","11":"tag-cars","12":"tag-competition","13":"tag-cost-of-living","14":"tag-dairy","15":"tag-data","16":"tag-department-for-business-and-trade","17":"tag-development","18":"tag-donald-trump","19":"tag-dumping-duties","20":"tag-exports","21":"tag-industry","22":"tag-ireland","23":"tag-markets","24":"tag-medicines","25":"tag-negotiations","26":"tag-oil","27":"tag-packaging","28":"tag-tariffs","29":"tag-trade","30":"tag-trade-agreements","31":"tag-united-kingdom","32":"tag-united-states","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115172125231902374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409381","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=409381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}