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HANSARDTrade BillIt is of course for the EU to determine what they recognise. Our priority for the EU/UK trading relationship is for it to be as frictionless as possible. What the UK has proposed…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI believe my noble friend is posing a slightly different question. I will come on to the EU negotiations. The response was about third countries and the certification required.30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI am happy to confirm that. I turn to Amendment 64. Trade continuity agreements, which Clause 2 would be used to implement, simply continue the effects of existing EU trade…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI hoped and believed that I had addressed that question. The answer is yes: that certification would continue as it currently does. That is the information I have but if the…30 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillLet me clarify for the noble Lord. As he will be aware, rules of origin determine the origin of goods. Regulations then implement those rules of origin in domestic legislation,…30 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsMy Lords, the Government’s policy remains to have a deal and an implementation period. If that is pursued, there is confidence that those agreements can be continued. That is in…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsOn any tariff rates, I repeat that this Government are clear in their aim to have a deal and an implementation period. There is of course a chance of no deal. There will come a…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsTo clarify, I said in the debate that it was for those third countries to determine what their processes are. Some are not public knowledge. I did not say that we did not know.…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsMy Lords, I thank the noble Lord for the question. The Government have been clear. We are aiming to have a deal and an implementation period. On that basis we are confident of the…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsMy Lords, with the leave of the House I will repeat as a Statement an Answer given to an Urgent Question in the other place by my honourable friend the Minister for Trade Policy.…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsI thank my noble friend. My right honourable friend the Prime Minister has been very clear about her attitude towards Article 50, so I do not want to take that one on. As for…24 Jan 2019HANSARDBrexit: EU Free Trade AgreementsI thank my noble friend for that question. He is absolutely right. An example referred to in another place was Turkey. As your Lordships will know, Turkey does not have a normal…24 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will address Amendment 18 first. I thank the noble Lord, Lord Purvis of Tweed, and all who have spoken in the debate. The themes from the noble Baroness, Lady Jones,…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI thank the noble Baroness, Lady Kramer, for the further question, and will try to reassure her. The Government have been engaging actively with those third parties on that…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI say to the noble Lord that we are actively working and engaging with them. It is for them to decide. They have discussed with us what they currently believe. Some they are…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I will try to do a little better than that. I can write to clarify, but my understanding is that in the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act arrangements were put in place…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillI believe that the noble Baroness has misinterpreted what I said. I did not say that we would wait until the end and that people would go into a chasm of not knowing. I said—I…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, I can confirm that that is why we want to have an agreement with an implementation period. That is why it is definitely the Government’s plan A, while a no-deal scenario…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillAgain, when countries are in the middle of negotiations, blow-by-blow accounts or reporting stages are highly irregular. I hear and understand this House’s concerns and I will see…23 Jan 2019HANSARDTrade BillMy Lords, what I can say is that all the countries we have spoken to have agreed with the principle of continuity. Therefore, one could expect that if they agree with the…23 Jan 2019