How will the cost of plant imports be impacted by Brexit?

摘要

A weakened UK currency, extra paperwork for plant importers and possible extra phytosanitary measures could lead to higher plant prices in 2019 — even without considering the usual increasing production and wage costs.On Dutch exports to the UK following next month's EU withdrawal, Henk Westerhof, chair of Dutch flower bulb and nursery stock growers' trade body Anthos, says: "There would be the same guarantee of quality as now but consumers will pay higher prices depending on currency, import duties and tariffs."