Brits who like Mediterranean dishes will face shortages in the future. Because of the Brexit policy, olive oil, pasta, parmesan and tomato sauce will be less on English shelves. Italian manufacturers are now warning, as the “Times” reports.
Imports of Italian pasta to the UK fell 28 percent in the first five months of this year. Imports of olive oil have decreased by 13 percent and deliveries of tomato sauce have decreased by 16 percent.
Greater delay and higher cost
The reason for this should be the Brexit. There are bureaucratic problems with the British exit from the EU, says Lorenzo Bazzana, the economic representative of the Italian agricultural association Coldiretti. Because of Brexit, costs are rising and there are always major delays at the border, Bazanna told the Daily Mail.
He went on to say that trade between Italy and the UK will decline overall this year. “This is a problem because Great Britain is Italy’s fourth largest export destination after Germany, France and the USA,” Bazzana continues. But it is not only the export opportunities for Italy that are decreasing. Counterfeit products are also increasingly causing problems.
100 billion with counterfeit products
Britain could become the “Trojan horse” for the arrival of counterfeit “Made in Italy” products, said Bazzana. These are mainly made in the USA. “The British will have to beware of oil and parmesan with an Italian flag on the label in future. You could come from the USA and not be real, ”said the economic official.
An annual turnover of 100 billion euros is made with counterfeit Italian products. That is the equivalent of 108.5 billion francs. (What)