Shocking ban on New Zealand butter
Sir - It is shocking that the European Commission has been able to impose a ban on New Zealand’s exports of butter to the European Union.
In view of our close historical ties with our cousins across the world, this has big historical resonance. So important is butter to the New Zealand economy that, when we were negotiating our entry to the Common Market in 1971, one of the very few sticking points on which Edward Heath was prepared to insist was the need to secure New Zealand’s right to continue exporting it to the UK.
It is shocking that we can now be prohibited from importing it. It is shocking that, as a nation, we no longer have the power to decide our own trade policy. It is shocking that it should be a British commissioner, Peter Mandelson, who has imposed the ban and that the ban arose, following a complaint from Germany, because the Commission had not done its paperwork properly.
Christopher Booker, Litton, Somerset
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