Lamb hauliers fear French reprisals
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• UK hauliers taking British lambs to France could face reprisals after British farmers held up French trucks to protest at France's continuing, and hegal, ban on British beef.
Following the Plymouth action the National Farmers' Union said its members were entering a new phase" of the beef ban by putting pressure on the French to bow to the European Commission's ending of the three-and-a-half-year
British beef ban. Further demos by British farmers have not been ruled out.
In 1997 106,000 tonnes of UK lamb worth .£250m were exported to the Continent. The export season runs from August to December and France has traditionally been the largest customer—but French farmers have repeatedly disrupted this traffic in the past, even burning lamb carcasses in the road.