India, June 3 -- The UK government will scrap border checks on fruits and vegetables imported from the European Union in an early move to ease trade ahead of its new SPS agreement with the EU.
The agreement will establish a UK-EU sanitary and phytosanitary zone, slashing costs, easing pressure on food prices and eliminating routine SPS border checks for food exports and imports.
This means that checks on medium-risk fruit and vegetables (including tomatoes, grapes, plums, cherries, peaches and peppers) imported from the EU will not be required - and will therefore not be brought into force this summer.
In the short term, businesses can continue importing medium-risk fruit and vegetables from the EU without the products being subject to i...