Post-Brexit import checks risk further pushing up food prices – industry group

Vegetables on sale in London. The UK sources fresh produce from about 100 countries, but the majority of imports enter from the EU. Photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA

The UK’s post-Brexit border strategy risks further pushing up food prices, according representatives of Britain’s fresh produce industry.

Traders in the food supply chain are warning they will not be able to absorb the extra cost of charges levied for import checks on goods entering the country from the EU and the rest of the world, due to be introduced in the new year.