UNITED KINGDOM:UK at Crossroads: Increasing Exports while Maintaining Consumers' High Expectations of Food Quality and Sustainability

摘要

On 12th March 2021 the UK Trade and Agriculture Commission published its updated strategy for maintaining high food standards for imports, rewarding countries who meet them with zero tariffs, and meeting consumers' ethical expectations post-Brexit: "We are trying to plot a path on which we confidently embrace an open, liberalised trade strategy, and a genuinely reciprocal approach to negotiations. Meanwhile we are trying to safeguard important standards in a way that is not protectionist or trade distorting. It is a path which promises that we will show genuine leadership on climate, environmental, ethical and welfare issues.