There's growing concern amongst UK exporters that any delays in the British government implementing¹ new legislation post-Brexit could harm exports to China.

 

英国出口商愈发担忧，英国政府对于脱欧后执行新法律的任何拖延都会影响到对中国的出口。

 

As part of the Brexit process, the British government will initially² largely replicate³ existing EU laws under the so-called 'Great Repeal⁴ Bill.' In theory, this will prevent the chaos⁵ that re-writing thousands of laws in a short time period would cause.

 

In practice, however, things are likely to be a great deal more complicated than they seem.

 

Food producers, for example, are concerned that their export health certificates - a vital condition of their business abroad - currently refer to EU law. Without changes before Brexit, will these still be legal once the UK leaves the EU?

 

According to specialist publication Pig World, this is a real problem and could halt British exports to China in the food sector⁶ whilst new agreements are made. Pork exports from the UK to China are growing rapidly and are very valuable to British farmers, so such a situation could be very harmful.

 

Delving⁷ deeper, it seems like there's a potential minefield of legislative⁸ difficulties in virtually every area of export and import.

 

For example, we recently reported on concerns in the energy sector about the complications that Brexit will pose to a nuclear deal between China, France and the UK.

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