Brexit may take €400m per year from our annual food and drink exports to the UK
These empty shelves in a Sainsbury’s store in Belfast may yet be the least of the Brexit problems.
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So far, most of the unhappiness at the outcome seems to have come within the UK, but maybe they are just the loudest complainers, while no doubt many traders across the EU and UK suffer in silence.
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