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Earlier this year, Coldiretti, an Italian farmers’ association, he added Exports of Made in Italy to the United Kingdom fell by 40% in the first two months after Brexit. Items affected by the UK’s removal from the European Union included food, weapons, clothing, machinery, equipment, and “transportation.”
At the same time, Coldiretti warned that trade pressures from Brexit would jeopardize agricultural food exports from Italy to the UK, including wine and prosecco, made from tomato, pasta, cured meats, olives, and cheese such as Grana Padano and Parmigiano Reggiano. .
Coldiretti appears to have reduced its numbers and announced that the amount of pasta sent from Italy to the UK dropped by 28% in the first five months after Brexit, while the extra virginity from olive oil is 13%, and tomato sauce has dropped by 16 percent at the same time. “With Brexit, the British have also abandoned Mediterranean cuisine,” the agency said in words.
The commission went on to point out that Brexit-related retention bans on UK borders, delays caused by a shortage of motorists, international crises, and other crises endanger Made in Italy’s $ 3.4 billion ($ 4 billion) exports. After Brexit, the UK was fourth in Italy’s largest food and beverage trade, followed by Germany, France, and the United States alone.
And when it comes to the United States, Coldiretti has some issues with us, too. Without real Italian products on British shelves, the agency is concerned that the market will be filled with fake items from wine to cheese. Coldiretti warned that the UK could be a “Trojan horse” when it comes to Italian counterfeit food, and it appears that the US is “one of the most” fake “of these items.
“The British should be in charge of Italian oil and parmesan with an Italian flag from the United States,” said Lorenzo Bazzana, Coldiretti’s chief financial officer, he was told Time. “Make an assumption that Italy is worth $ 100 billion a year on worldwide sales, double the number of Italian food and beverages […] Before going to Brexit we can ask the UK to avoid Italian counterfeit food but now it has left the EU we can’t, so our fears could be shattered there. “
In July, Coldiretti he complained Prosecco exports in the UK fell by 9% in the first quarter of this year; As a result, the UK is now the second largest importer of bright wine, behind the US
On the bright side, the UK has had no problem – yet! – when it comes to importing beans from the US to donate Heinz’s main factory at Wigan. If Heinz beans are missing from store shelves, then British consumers may have a problem.