The U.K. and the E.U. recently signed a wide-ranging bilateral agreement covering such topics as security and defense, trade, and access to lucrative fishing grounds.
Some sectors, such as the U.K. retail and export industries, praised the agreement, saying it will help to cut down on cross-border checks and remove other previously burdensome red tape.
“Sweeping away trade barriers with the E.U. will remove cost, complexity, and delay in food imports from the continent,” Morrisons CEO Rami Baitiéh said of the deal.
However, in return for such concessions on trade and other issues, provisions on fishing largely remained the same as they were in the original Brexit deal, angering the fishing sector in the U.K., which had hoped that the deal would lead to changes.