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once shippers understand the new this to be the case, especially with
requirements in respect of billing regard to food ingredients that in-
details. “We import chiefly from clude meat products. They require
Australia and Europe, and up to further veterinary certification,
now have not experienced any which will impact on anyone look-
increase in costs or prices of in- ing to import those items.”
gredients. I hope that this will re-
main the case and the processes Looking ahead
will bed in,“ Carina Evans con- “From our business perspective,
tinues. It is as yet too early to de- Brexit has given us an opportunity
termine the impact on raw ingre- to indeed renew focus on Europe,
dient imports, but provision has identify key partners, let other non-
already been made at Podium Pet profitable streams go and focus
Products to switch to alternative fully on reliable and excellent part-
suppliers if the need arises. ners, new and old,” Carina Evans
“The import and export of stresses. George Bramble adds:
products across borders is going “While Brexit may, for some, have
to be made more complicated by challenged international relation-
the UK not being in the EU,” says ships, Beco’s experience is that
George Bramble, founder of Beco the commonly held love for
Suhr. She adds: “Our aspiration is Pets, also. He exports to 50 coun- owning dogs and pets crosses all
to continue to supply our customers tries and stresses: “There is also borders. We find that this special
in the UK directly from Germany.” inevitably going to be more paper- bond is something shared by all
For Trixie’s part, no goods work involved when moving prod- our customers in the UK, across
were shipped to the UK for a pe- ucts across borders. We expect the EU and worldwide.” n
riod of four weeks, three weeks
at the end of 2020 and the first
week of the new year. This was
because internal order process-
ing became much more com-
plex. In addition, while pallet
shipments were generally deliv-
ered within the normal time
frames, parcel consignments
were considerably delayed or did
not arrive at all.

Voices from the UK
“The consequences of Brexit are
no different from the processes
by which we export to other re-
gions of the world – to the United
States, for example, or to Canada,”
comments Carina Evans of Po-
dium Pet Products. She is sure
that the problems of goods traffic
at the borders will be resolved Products with a Brexit design were on show at Pats back in 2019.

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