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Australia said the extension of the U.K.'s withdrawal caused "significant commercial disruptions" for their businesses. "Many Australian businesses ceased exports of commercially valuable beef and sheepmeat in the lead up to Christmas," Australia said in the meeting.
The countries pressed the EU and the U.K. to offer better market access as compensation for the trade disruptions caused by Brexit.
Canada, New Zealand and the U.S. also expressed their concerns, even though Britain is trying to style its former colonies as natural strategic and commercial allies after it has quit the EU. They have already warned Britain and the EU to not just shuffle tariff rate quotas between each other. [...]