Brexit: Farming Tariffs - Question

Part of the debate – in the House of Lords at 3:00 pm on 19 March 2019.

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Photo of Lord Cameron of Dillington Lord Cameron of Dillington Crossbench 3:00, 19 March 2019

My Lords, can we assume that the Government are aware also of the serious dangers posed to agriculture by EU tariffs on our exports in the event of a no-deal Brexit? If, for example, our beef exports were to suffer the current EU tariff of 80% to 90% or our lamb industry were to export through a 35% to 40% tariff it would kill those two industries dead and undermine the agricultural economy of large swathes of our countryside.