Can Irish Butter Smugglers Reach Norway In Time?
BUTTER is big business in Norway:
Butter is now selling on Norway’s top auction website, with a 250-gram piece starting at around $13, roughly four times its normal price.
Just weeks before Norwegians will be expecting to eat plenty of buttery traditional biscuits and other homemade Christmas treats made with love and the liberal inclusion of dairy products, residents of the world’s second-richest per-capita country can’t even hope for help from a friendly neighbour who is rolling in butter.
Top dairy producer Denmark lies just across a narrow sea channel, but its stores of creamy butter will be kept out of the country by the high import duties of Norway, the only Nordic nation that does not belong to the European Union.
Ireland… Ireland… Come in, Ireland… Kerry Gold!
Spotter: Norway needs butter now
Posted: 10th, December 2011 | In: The Consumer Comment (1) | TrackBack | Permalink
