While championing the interests of the UK’s food and drink industry, the new Trade and Investment Strategy put forward by the Food and Drink Federation (FDF) aims to strengthen choice and affordability for UK households at a time of rising inflation.
Available HERE, A UK Trade and Investment Strategy for Food and Drink highlights how the FDF aims to drive up exports, ensuring the UK is a global hub for innovation and R&D investment and ensuring that imports support consumer choice, affordability and the UK’s food security.
FDF Chief Executive Karen Betts said: “The food and drink sector aims to offer shoppers unrivalled choice at affordable prices across a huge range of products. Trade is an important part of that, since we rely on imports of many ingredients that aren’t produced in the UK, like spices. We also export both traditional and innovative British products around the world, from our world-famous biscuits to gluten-free foods and salmon”.
The report looks at how the Government and industry can put food and drink at the heart of the UK’s new, independent trade policy.
Responding to it, Secretary of State for International Trade, Anne-Marie Trevelyan, said: “We want to see businesses fulfilling their trade and exporting potential, boosting green trade and growing our economy. The UK is home to world-class food and drink, and our ambitious trade deals will continue to open new markets for the excellent products made in the UK and sold to the world”.
