At the turn of the year, Great Britain finally left the EU internal market and the customs union.
The consequences are now becoming apparent: exports in the food sector have shrunk dramatically in some cases.
London (AP) - British food exports to the EU fell significantly after Brexit.
In the first three months of the year, export sales fell by almost half (47 percent) to around 1.7 billion pounds (just under two billion euros), as the British Food and Drink Federation announced on Friday.
If you look back a year further, the decline in exports to Europe is as much as 55 percent.
"The loss of two billion pounds in exports to the EU is a disaster for our industry," said the association's international trade director, Dominic Goudie.
"It is a clear indication of the extent of the losses that British manufacturers are facing in the long term due to new trade barriers in the EU."
The hardest hit were dairy manufacturers, whose exports fell by 90 percent.
The decline in cheese exports to the EU was two thirds.
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