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Ten years after the referendum, the United Kingdom is importing fewer Spanish agri‑food products and more goods from third countries. Rising costs, bureaucracy and the loss of competitive advantages have reshaped trade relations with one of the Spanish agri‑food sector’s key markets.
On 23 June 2016, the referendum in which voters in the United Kingdom and Gibraltar chose to leave the EU was held. Tomorrow marks ten years since that vote, a decade in which the UK market has remained the third most important destination for Spain’s fruit and vegetable export sector. However, new administrative requirements have been introduced, costs have increased, and competition from third countries has intensified.
Cajamar has confirmed the good evolution of the fruit and vegetables sector in Almeria, during the presentation of its report on the fruit and vegetable campaign 2016-17, which took place on November 30 in Almeria. An event attended by more than 200 entrepreneurs, technicians and professionals of the sector, and which has also included the presentation in Almeria of the document ‘Brexit and agri-food sector. Where we are and where we are going’.
After a little more than a year after the announcement of the Brexit, Andalusian agro-alimentary exports to the United Kingdom continue their upward trend. Thus,
