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Government backtracks over false claim soy sauce will be cheaper after Brexit
Sam Lowe, a trade expert at the Centre for European Reform, described the department's claim as "naughty".
He noted that the sauce was "already zero-rated under EU-Japan deal" and that the UK-Japan deal would simply "mean it wont get more expensive at the end of the year".