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1680537

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date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Cheese: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if she will make an estimate of how many UK cheese exporters will have to pay full tariffs on exports to Canada as a result of changes to the trading agreement.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	8630
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>In the 12 months leading to and including October 2023, the UK exported 1.9 kilotonnes worth of cheese to Canada. This represented 1.1% of the UK’s global exports of cheese in this period.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains eligible for the tariff-free ‘non-EU Reserve’ of Canada’s WTO Cheese Tariff Rate Quota of 6.1 kilotonnes.</p><p> </p><p>As of 1 January 2024, UK exporters need to ensure the Canadian importer they are partnering with has the correct import licence. Upon entry into force, UK exporters will also be able to access CPTPP quotas providing for 16.5 KT of cheese exports to Canada a year.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 8631 question first answered 11/01/2024 17:50:50 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1680538

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Cheese: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, how many companies exported cheese to Canada in 2023; and what estimate she has made of how many will be able to export to Canada without being subject to full tariffs in 2024.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	8631
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>In the 12 months leading to and including October 2023, the UK exported 1.9 kilotonnes worth of cheese to Canada. This represented 1.1% of the UK’s global exports of cheese in this period.</p><p> </p><p>The UK remains eligible for the tariff-free ‘non-EU Reserve’ of Canada’s WTO Cheese Tariff Rate Quota of 6.1 kilotonnes.</p><p> </p><p>As of 1 January 2024, UK exporters need to ensure the Canadian importer they are partnering with has the correct import licence. Upon entry into force, UK exporters will also be able to access CPTPP quotas providing for 16.5 KT of cheese exports to Canada a year.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani grouped question UIN 8630 question first answered 11/01/2024 17:50:50 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1680539

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Cheese: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of changes to the UK’s trading agreement with Canada on the British cheese industry.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	8632
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>As of 1 January 2024, U.K. exporters can export cheese to Canada tariff free if they do so through a Canadian importer with a licence for Canada’s “non EU” World Trade Organisation quota.</p><p> </p><p>These changes only came into effect at the start of the year, and it is too early to determine the full impact.</p><p> </p><p>We will continue to work closely with U.K. cheese exporters to monitor the impact of the changes, including what this means for the relationships between Canadian import licence holders and exporters.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/01/2024 17:15:12 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan

1680637

registered interest
date	08/01/2024
answering body	Department for Business and Trade
answering dept id	214
answering dept short name	Business and Trade
answering dept sort name	Business and Trade
hansard heading	Cheese: Canada
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to help British cheese producers maintain levels of exports to Canada.
tabling member constituency	North Shropshire
tabling member printed	Helen Morgan
uin	8633
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 11/01/2024 answer text <p>As of 1 January 2024, U.K. exporters can export cheese to Canada tariff free if they do so through a Canadian importer with a licence for Canada’s “non-EU” World Trade Organisation quota. We continue to work closely with U.K. cheese exporters to monitor the impact of these changes.</p><p>We will also work closely with the sector to ensure that U.K. exporters are in a strong position to take advantage of the Canadian dairy quotas that the U.K. will be able to access through CPTPP.</p> answering member constituency Wealden answering member printed Ms Nusrat Ghani question first answered 11/01/2024 16:30:05 answering member 4460 label Biography information for Ms Nusrat Ghani
tabling member	4934 label Biography information for Helen Morgan