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NurseHolliday
One of the legal obstacles is the WTO. @JWestland is wrong to say that nothing is stopping us. If we just give a green light to all EU food checks, we're violating WTO rules on trade without discrimination, by giving special favours to the EU as a trading partner. We'd have to blindly accept all food certifications from all nations, no matter how bad, to get away with it.
One practical obstacle is the logjam at the borders, which would not be cleared by making it easier for some EU goods to get in. If getting back out is slow, even when the trucks are empty, who wants to send their trucks in?
We're part of a network. Trucks come here, drop stuff off, pick other stuff up, head on. We're breaking that network. As a result, traffic in both directions dries up.