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Re: [Updated] The UK’s future relationship with the EU
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Originally Posted by Chris
It’s not always profitable. Cane sugar from the Americas is (or would be) far cheaper than European grown beet sugar, but EU tariffs are designed to protect beet producers, which are mostly located in northern continental Europe (and most of that in France and Germany). Prior to our entry into the EU most sugar refined in the UK came from cane. There’s no reason why that shouldn’t resume, now we are no longer obligated to subscribe to Franco-German protectionism that is the very heart of the European project.
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Over 50% of the sugar in the U.K. comes from U.K. produced beet sugar (and we also export 300,000 tonnes of beet sugar annually), so any ‘freeing up" of the market would decimate that industry.
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