date:Mar 12, 2019
The Spanish business association Afrucat has calculated that British consumers would have to pay up to 20% more for Spanish fruit in case of a No-deal Brexit.
In recent years, on average 325,000 tonnes of fruit have been exported from Spain to the United Kingdom each year. These were mainly mandarins, oranges, peaches and nectarines, as well as apples. The UK is not very important as an exporting country for Spain, with 5% of all their exports. For the UK itself, however, Spanish imports are si