British food exports to EU ‘have fallen £3bn a year since Brexit’

UK food imports to the EU have become more expensive and complicated as the British government implements the Brexit deal. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

Exports of British food to the EU have dropped by nearly £3bn a year since Brexit, a trade thinktank has said, with new physical and documentary checks at the border complicating trade.

A report by the Centre of Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) has found that the export of UK food and agricultural products to the EU has fallen by more than 16% on average across the three years since Britain left the single market, when compared with the three years before the exit.