UK Launched New Strategy to Boost Supply Chain Resilience for Critical Goods

Global events threatening Britain’s supply chains have prompted the government to set out a new strategy to secure a reliable flow of critical imports. The new programme will “identify, review and where feasible” remove import barriers into the UK and overseas. It was introduced by the Business Minister Nusrat Ghani on Wednesday. The Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy is meant to protect goods imported into the country, which are “critical to the UK security and prosperity.” These range from semiconductors to medicines and cover critical elements of infrastructure, such as defence, emergency services, food, transport, energy and digital technology....