Consumers may have to pick up bill for new Brexit checks

New border checks on food and plant imports will add billions of pounds to the cost of doing business with the European Union, industry figures have warned.

Smaller independent food importers fear they will be disproportionately affected by the regime as they lack the scale to mitigate costs or set up European subsidiaries to handle the process.

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