{"id":34495,"date":"2025-11-18T09:25:58","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T01:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsbites.hktdc.com\/?p=34495"},"modified":"2025-11-18T16:04:42","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:04:42","slug":"plant-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsbites.hktdc.com\/markets\/plant-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant Importers Sound Alarm Over Border Delays, Warn of Summer Supply Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"34495\" class=\"elementor elementor-34495\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-8e836ad elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"8e836ad\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-bd8138b\" data-id=\"bd8138b\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c94cd17 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"c94cd17\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><strong>Plant importers in the UK are warning that persistent border delays and mishandling at the Sevington inspection post in Kent are causing higher costs, supply disruptions, and damage to live plant shipments from the EU.<\/strong> The post, built to conduct sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) checks on animal and plant products after Brexit, has become a bottleneck. Importers report waiting days for inspections, with estimated extra costs of about \u00a3200 per load and frequent plant damage during unloading and reloading.<\/p><p>These issues are particularly severe for perishable goods such as bedding plants and cut flowers. For instance, a shipment of olive trees from Italy was delayed for five days, while others arrived with broken branches and uprooted pots. <strong>Traders say that such problems are undermining their reliability and discouraging EU suppliers from continuing deliveries to the UK.<\/strong><\/p><h3>Costly Maintenance Yet May Pose a &#8220;Trade Barrier&#8221;<\/h3><p>The facility costs \u00a323 million annually to operate, with importers also paying SPS-related \u201ccommon user charges\u201d. Industry bodies like the Horticultural Trades Association (HTA) argue that an SPS agreement with the EU\u2014currently part of Prime Minister Keir Starmer\u2019s \u201creset\u201d plan and not expected before 2027\u2014is essential to eliminate these barriers.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-fd5a6f0 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"fd5a6f0\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-4bbeba6\" data-id=\"4bbeba6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap 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elementor-element-4a232b6\" data-id=\"4a232b6\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-26e9631 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"26e9631\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<ul><li><strong>Buyers<\/strong> should expect continued volatility in UK horticultural supply chains, with higher costs likely being passed downstream.<\/li><li><strong>EU and non-EU suppliers<\/strong> may find it increasingly unattractive to serve the UK market without clear improvements in border efficiency.<\/li><li><strong>Strategic sourcing diversification<\/strong>\u2014including local production or alternative logistics routes\u2014will be key to mitigating Brexit-related trade friction.<\/li><\/ul><p><a 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