LONDON: The supermarket sticker shock threatened by a no-deal Brexit has been averted, but British shoppers still may find prices creeping higher in the new year.
A raft of red tape plus new checks at the border could add £3bil (US$4.1bil) in costs for food importers, according to the UK’s Food and Drink Federation. That’s about an 8% increase – some of which could work its way down to prices paid at checkouts.
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