Soldato
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We already import millions of pounds of meat from the EU. The Aussie meat imports as I understand are capped at the equivalence of 15% of that. What will happen over time is the Aussie quota will reduce what comes from the EU. There's also nothing to say the Aussie stuff will be cheaper than ours since they have the added cost of shipping.
Labelling is what is important so consumers can differentiate and make their own choices. The Aussie stuff may compete at the premium end but either way we aren't satisfying all our requirements without imports and it's giving us access to their markets too.
It's the EU that will loose out.
No UK farmers will lose out. This was a terrible deal for UK farmers. Aussie food standards are again no where near ours. This Gov is throwing our farmers under the bus in a desperate effort to get trade deals though so Brexit looks better. You claim to be a patriot but you don't seem to care about UK farmers. Also shipping more produce from the opposite side of the world is frankly ridiculous.