It's time for what I like to call a post-Brexit check. The UK has suspended trade talks with Canada, pointing to disagreements over hormone-treated beef. This decision will reduce British farmers' access to Canadian markets, and leaves tariffs of nearly 250 per cent on British cheese. That. Is A. Disg... Oh, never mind.
The backstory to this, the curds if you will, is CETA, the trade agreement signed by the EU and Canada back in 2016. When the UK effectively left the bloc at the end of 2019, a rollover deal was put in place that contained, amongst other clauses, preferential access for UK cheesemakers. That has now lapsed.
