‘I hope they take a light touch’ – Northern Ireland businesses hopeful about new Brexit deal via IrishTimesBiz
The view is shared by Stuart Anderson, head of public affairs at the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce and Industry – which represents about 1,000 firms, who said that while technical and political issues remain to resolved there is “real potential for Northern Ireland to do well” economically under the framework.
In the dairy and beef industry, he said “they are pleased today, I’ve spoken to a few of them, that their barrier-free access to the single market has been preserved”. “If we are getting loads in from companies that we don’t sell down South, that will be dead easy. That will take a lot of the work away,” he said.
“It will make life easier for me but the devil is still in how they are going to treat it, load by load, or will they consider Johnson Brothers a red company because we sell in the South,” he said.
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