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HANSARDTrade Remedies AuthorityThis Government are committed to ensuring the UK has our own trade remedies function in place by the time we leave the EU. The Trade Bill contains provisions establishing the…05 Mar 2019HANSARDGovernment Procurement AgreementI wish to update the House on the progress made in securing the UK’s continued participation in the WTO agreement on Government procurement (GPA) as we leave the EU. Yesterday in…28 Feb 2019HANSARDEU Exit: Free Trade AgreementsToday, I am laying a Command Paper—“Processes for making free trade agreements after the United Kingdom has left the European Union” (CM 63) before Parliament. The Government are…28 Feb 2019HANSARDInternational TradeOf 109 existing EU measures, we will maintain 43 of these measures where they are directly applicable to the EU and have met the criteria to be maintained. Those measures cover a…27 Feb 2019HANSARDInternational TradeOf 109 existing EU measures, we will maintain 43 where they are directly applicable to the UK and have met the criteria to be maintained. Those measures cover a wide range of…27 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsLike all the other elements that I mentioned, they in one way or another provide jobs for people in the United Kingdom, and the Government will ensure that industries whether…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsWere we to have a customs union, we would forever have to apply to the UK the trade remedies decided by the European Union, which might apply remedies to areas where there is no…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsThere were several completely different issues in that question. I think that the hon. Gentleman is to some extent confusing the issue of most favoured nation day-one tariffs with…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsLike my hon. Friend, I am, I would like to think, a great champion of free trade, but that does not mean a free-for-all. There have to be rules to ensure that there is fair trade…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsI am encouraged by the reaction of UK Steel, who very much welcome the Government’s measures. In a very small number, such as rebar, we have maintained the remedy, where the…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsI am grateful to my hon. Friend for his constant support for, and defence of, steel interests in his constituency and elsewhere. Today we are setting out to show the industry that…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsWherever we can bring down prices to make the disposable incomes of people throughout the United Kingdom go further, we will do so. That is a sound Conservative principle. We will…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsGiven the short time for which my Department has existed, we have not yet developed such bodies. I will convey my hon. Friend’s representations loudly and clearly to my…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsI find it bizarre that what I interpret as the position of the Labour Front Bench today is to maintain trade remedies where there is no UK producer interest. It does not comply…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsOne of the reasons I looked forward to making my statement was that I would be protected from the persistent but not unwelcome badgering of my hon. Friend about ceramics in his…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsAs part of the Government’s preparations for leaving the European Union, the Department for International Trade has been determining which existing EU trade remedy measures should…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsWe got there just before Brexit, Mr Deputy Speaker. The hon. Gentleman did not say very much about trade remedies, so there is very little to respond to. In fact, it is a great…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsThe Treasury will bring forward the appropriate statutory instruments relating to that soon.25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsOur intention is to maintain protection where there is a case to protect British businesses from unfair trading practices. We have looked at the evidence that the EU put in place…25 Feb 2019HANSARD Trade Remedy Measures: UK InterestsI can confirm that and, as I said, we will want to use British market-sensitive data to do that. At all times, we want to maintain the correct level of protection so that our…25 Feb 2019