Britain rolls out Brexit checks on food imports from EU at Channel and North Sea ports

Additional costs are likely to be passed onto consumers in both Ireland and Britain

Importers have said they are also unclear over the role of a border control post some 20 miles inland from the port of Dover. Picture: Gareth Fuller/PA

Britain implemented the latest phase of its roll-out of Brexit border checks on imports of food and agricultural goods from the EU yesterday — with the additional costs likely to be passed onto consumers in both Ireland and Britain.

The border checks apply to imports of food, agricultural, and other so-called phytosanitary products at British ports on the Channel and North Sea, and not at British ports on the Irish Sea, which the British government have delayed until a unspecified date next year.