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Post-Brexit border fee brings warnings of higher food prices and empty shelves

Source: PA Wire

Food suppliers have warned of higher prices and empty supermarket shelves thanks to a new post-Brexit border charge being introduced at the end of the month.

Importers will have to pay up to £145 to bring small amounts of products such as cheese, salami and fish through the port of Dover or the from April 30, according

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