Britain should not allow the Australia-UK free trade agreement to be held “hostage” by the country’s farming sector and should focus on ratifying the deal this year, a leading trade group has warned.
The Australian British Chamber of Commerce published a report this week that said the UK’s first post-Brexit trade deal would remove more than A$9bn (£5bn) of tariffs and boost access to workers and capital between both countries.
But British farmers have objected that Australia could flood the UK market with cheap beef and lamb and damage the livelihoods of livestock producers.
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