The Customs (Tariff and Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2026
Regulation 2 amends the licensing table in Schedule 2 to the Customs (Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1432) which identifies the tariff quotas that are administered by licence. It removes preferential United States beef quota 05.4010 from this table to reflect a change in the administration of this quota from ‘licensed’ to ‘first come first served’. This quota is in respect of the General Terms for the United States of America and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Economic Prosperity Deal, concluded on 8th May 2025.
Lifecycle
Department
Made
20 Jan 2026
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Comes into force
TBC
Enabling power
the Act These Regulations are made by the Treasury in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 9(1), 11(1), (3) and (7), 17(6) and (7), and 32(7) and (8) of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018(“”) and by the Secretary of State in exercise of the powers conferred by sections 11(3), (4) and (6) and 32(7) and (8) of the Act. Further to sections 9(3) and 17(8) of the Act, the Secretary of State has recommended that these Regulations be made. In accordance with section 11(7) of the Act, in considering what provision to include in regulations made under sections 11(1) and (3) of the Act, the Treasury have had regard to a recommendation made to them by the Secretary of State. Further to section 28 of the Act, the Treasury and Secretary of State, in exercising their functions under Part 1 of the Act, have had regard to the international arrangements to which His Majesty’s government in the United Kingdom is a party that are relevant to the exercise of those functions.
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