Mr. Martin Rice at the Agriculture and Agri-Food Committee

I'll just say a few words in total.

We don't really sell pigs; we sell hams and we sell shoulders and bellies. It is all broken up, and the cut that is the most problematic for our industry in the world market is the ham. The European market for hams is the best in the world, particularly in the manufacturers in Italy and in the U.K., and interestingly also the very highest tariff going into the EU is the hams. Products that we could ship in there at low tariffs they don't really need.

So that's the big bonus if we can get another market. We shipped 50,000 tonnes of hams into Romania the year before they joined the EU. It's zero now. That's the way it has gone.