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Beef, Dairy Industries In Northern Ireland Will Struggle Against Non-EU Prices

The beef and dairy sector in Northern Ireland will struggle greatly to compete with products from non-EU countries, at prices well below the EU average....

Brexit Crisis Could Be Eased If Connectivity Accord Extended, FTAI

The Freight Transport Association of Ireland has suggested that the Brexit crisis could be cooled somewhat if the EU and the UK extended a transit or conne...

Weekly Round-Up... 20 August, 2019

Corona-maker Constellation Brands announced today that it has signed an agreement with Heaven Hill Brands to divest Black Velvet Canadian Whisky and the br...

ICMSA To Rally Major EU-Wide Campaign Opposing Mercosur Agreement

Speaking in advance of a meeting of the European Milk Board (EMB) in Brussels, the President of ICMSA said that he will be asking EMB to mount a major EU w...

United States Threatens Additional Tariffs On $4bn Of EU Goods

The United States has threatened tariffs on up to $4 billion worth of additional EU goods, which could include Irish whiskey. The move is yet another in...

EU, Mercosur Strike Trade Pact, Defying Protectionist Wave

The European Union and South American bloc Mercosur agreed to a free trade treaty on Friday, concluding two decades of talks and committing to more open ma...

ICSA Welcomes Oireachtas Report On Beef, But Calls For Mercosur Axe

Beef chairman of the Irish Cattle and Sheep Farmers’ Association (ICSA), Edmund Graham, has welcomed the recommendations in the report on “The...

EU May Ease Regulations On Food From Japan's Nuclear Disaster Region

The European Union proposed on Thursday easing restrictions on imports of some food from Japanese regions hit by the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Ja...