{"id":80152,"date":"2023-01-25T07:11:03","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2023\/01\/25\/ni-protocol-ms-warns-against-separate-labelling-for-ni-goods\/"},"modified":"2023-01-25T07:11:03","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T07:11:03","slug":"ni-protocol-ms-warns-against-separate-labelling-for-ni-goods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tahrir2day.com\/news\/2023\/01\/25\/ni-protocol-ms-warns-against-separate-labelling-for-ni-goods\/","title":{"rendered":"NI Protocol: M&S warns against separate labelling for NI goods"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Marks & Spencer has warned that labeling goods sold in Northern Ireland separately would not be a workable change to the Northern Ireland Protocol.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The Protocol is the post-Brexit agreement that Northern Ireland holds in the EU’s single market for goods.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The UK and EU are negotiating ways to improve their operations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Both have previously suggested that labeling could play a role in reducing physical inspections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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M&S leader Archie Norman has written to the Foreign Secretary to warn that labeling would mean “excessive and prohibitive costs” for retailers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In July 2021, the UK government proposed that “adequate labeling requirements so that goods can only be sold in the UK” should be part of a radical plan to ease controls on British goods, particularly food, entering Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This was echoed by the EU in October 2021, which said a condition for the reduction in controls and paperwork was that goods be labeled “at the individual end-user pack level with words such as ‘products sold only in the UK’ Need to become ‘”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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However, M&S said this would create difficulties for companies selling outside the UK, particularly to the Republic of Ireland.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The letter states that products for export would require separate production runs, packaging and separate warehouses. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It added that such a requirement would “completely undermine the all-Ireland supply we have put in place to circumvent the current problems”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The letter states that a Northern Ireland specific labeling would create similar problems “requiring dedicated production runs and segregated stock levels for around 7-9% of our volume and incurring costs for packaging changes on each production run”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mr Norman said that any solution must be fully digital, adding that “retailers are already working with real-time digital information – day or night, at the touch of a button we can locate our products, whether it’s in a depot, on the road or in a store “.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“In a digital age – when a customer can check into the store and find their order in less than 60 seconds with the tap of a mobile phone, it’s bewildering that the government and the EU have rewound four decades to come up with an expensive ‘solution’ to discuss with stickers & labelling,” he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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It is understood that the UK has not ruled out a role for labeling as it sees this as standard practice for all food retailers.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe Protocol is causing real problems in Northern Ireland. These include trade disruptions and diversion, significant costs and red tape for traders,” a government spokesman said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“We prefer to resolve these issues through talks and the government is engaged in constructive dialogue with the EU to find solutions.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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