Brexit shuts off EU market for English cheese shaped like barrels

The company has now put on hold plans for a £1m pound new distribution centre in Macclesfield. Mr Spurrell told Reuters he is considering setting up a new hub in France, where it can still ship on a wholesale basis.Mr Spurrell thinks that the lack of an exemption from costly certificates for direct consumer sales was an oversight in Boris Johnson’s Brexit trade agreement, as negotiators rushed to seal the deal at the end of 2020. Patrick Murfet, managing director at Bee Equipment, wants to import baby Italian bees into Kent – but has been warned they could be “destroyed” due to confusion about whether bees can be brought into Great Britain via Northern Ireland.