The grey weather outside Darren Larvin’s window in Wiltshire, U.K., when he spoke to CBC News last Tuesday matched the forecast for his company’s Canadian cheese sales in 2024.
“Essentially, we’re going to fall off the edge of a cliff at the end of this year,” said the managing director of Coombe Castle International, an award-winning global exporter of British dairy products like specialty creams, butters and cheeses.
After Brexit — the United Kingdom’s departure from the European Union in 2020 — an interim agreement kept tariff-free British cheese on Canadian shelves for three years, as government negotiators worked on a longer-term bilateral trade deal to replace the liberalized trade the U.K. enjoyed under the terms of Canada’s Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with the EU.
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