Economics
Rotterdam Port to Halt U.K. Livestock Imports in No-Deal Brexit
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Imports of livestock from the U.K. will grind to a halt at the Port of Rotterdam next month should Britain crash out of the European Union, as a vital inspection point at the harbor isn’t ready.
“We face a couple of hiccups and livestock is one of them,” Mark Dijk, the port’s manager of external affairs, said in an interview last week. “Although it is positive that we got a bit of an extension.” In the absence of a deal or a further delay, Brexit is now scheduled for April 12, rather than the original deadline of March 29.