Liv-ex’s managing director, James Miles, recently wrote in an open letter to the prime minister: “The UK is proposing to roll over a particularly pernicious EU non-tariff barrier (an import form called a ‘VI-1’) into UK law. The VI-1, which requires a full laboratory analysis for every shipment of wine entering the EU from a third country, is designed to protect the interests of European wine growers by undermining the competitiveness of overseas producers.
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