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1055120

registered interest
date	05/02/2019
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to limit any disruption to EU–UK trade flows that may arise from a no-deal Brexit.
tabling member printed	Lord Chidgey
uin	HL13445
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to supporting businesses and recognises the importance of trade fluidity for goods through the UK’s borders.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC are introducing temporary easements for a no deal scenario making it easier for businesses to import goods from the EU using Roll on Roll off locations. Once registered, businesses will be able to transport goods into the UK without having to make full declarations at the border, and will be able to postpone paying import duties for a short period.</p> answering member printed Lord Bates question first answered 19/02/2019 12:48:35 answering member 1091 label Biography information for Lord Bates
tabling member	50 label Biography information for Lord Chidgey

1017237

registered interest
date	29/11/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what proportion of UK GDP is from trade with the EU.
tabling member constituency	Shipley
tabling member printed	Philip Davies
uin	197388
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/12/2018 answer text <p>As our largest trading partner, total trade with the EU was worth the equivalent of 30.4% of GDP in 2017. Within this, goods and services exports to the EU were 13.8% of GDP.</p><p> </p><p>Net trade in goods and services with the EU contributed 0.8 percentage points to GDP growth last year.</p><p> </p><p>However, this does not account for intermediate demand or the inputs of products, both domestic and imported, stemming from trade with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Salisbury answering member printed John Glen question first answered 07/12/2018 11:40:02 answering member 4051 label Biography information for John Glen
tabling member	1565 label Biography information for Sir Philip Davies

947379

registered interest
date	24/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 23 July 2018 to Question 165182, by what means HMRC plans to distinguish between a good settled in its final destination in the UK and a good destined to travel on to the EU.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	168130
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 05/09/2018 answer text <p>Under the Facilitated Customs Arrangement, the UK will apply the EU’s tariffs and trade policy for goods intended for the EU; while applying its own tariffs and trade policy for goods intended for the UK.</p><p> </p><p>Where a good reaches the UK border, and the destination can be robustly demonstrated by a trusted trader, it will pay the UK tariff if it is destined for the UK and the EU tariff if it is destined for the EU. This is most likely to be relevant to finished goods, and we will seek to maximise the number of trusted traders who can pay the correct tariff at the border.</p><p> </p><p>Where the destination of the good cannot be demonstrated at the point of import, the higher of the UK or EU tariff will be due. Where the good’s destination is later identified to be the lower tariff jurisdiction, it will be eligible for a repayment from the UK equal to the difference between the two tariffs. This is most likely to be relevant to intermediate goods.</p><p> </p><p>The FCA, including how goods destined for the UK and the EU will be distinguished, will be designed to make it as simple as possible for businesses to engage with. The final details will be subject to negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 05/09/2018 09:37:33 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

946954

registered interest
date	23/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether it is the policy of the Government that EU member states should apply UK tariffs and trade policy at the EU border for goods intended for the UK.
tabling member constituency	East Ham
tabling member printed	Stephen Timms
uin	167106
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/09/2018 answer text <p>The UK has proposed a Facilitated Customs Arrangement (FCA), which would see the UK mirroring the EU’s customs approach to ensure all goods destined for the EU have complied with EU customs processes - thus removing the need for customs processes between the UK and the EU.</p><p><strong> </strong>As set out in the White Paper ‘The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union’, the UK will seek to negotiate a reciprocal tariff revenue formula, which would account for goods destined for the UK entering via the EU and goods destined for the EU entering via the UK.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 04/09/2018 15:50:09 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	163 label Biography information for Sir Stephen Timms

943075

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 16b on page 17 of the white paper, The Future Relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, cm. 9593, what estimate his Department has made of the (a) financial cost and (b) potential job losses resulting from the Government's policy to require refunding of tariffs on four per cent of UK goods trade.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	165181
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>On 12 July, the government published a White Paper setting out a clear proposal for the future relationship the UK wants to build with the European Union. In this paper the government proposed a new Facilitated Customs Arrangement (FCA) with the EU. The FCA seeks to ensure that we promote the greatest possible trade with both the EU and the rest of the world.</p><p> </p><p>The government is seeking to maximise the number of traders who will not need to interact with a voluntary repayment mechanism. For businesses that would be eligible for a tariff repayment, the government assesses that this would lead to neither net costs nor job losses for these businesses. This is because businesses would only enter into the voluntary repayment mechanism if they stand to benefit overall from the UK’s independent trade policy. The Government assesses that the eligibility for a repayment is most likely relevant to imports of intermediate goods from non-EU countries for which a tariff differential could arise which is equivalent to around 4% of total UK trade in goods. Further detail is set out in section 1.2.1 of the publication.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 23/07/2018 15:49:46 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

943077

registered interest
date	17/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the document The future relationship between the United Kingdom and the European Union, page 49, paragraph 162, what preparations are being made to create an enforcement system to prevent the wrongful payment of tariffs; and how much the Government has allocated to fund those preparations.
tabling member constituency	Leigh
tabling member printed	Jo Platt
uin	165182
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 23/07/2018 answer text <p>Under the Facilitated Customs Arrangement, where there is a material risk of circumvention of the higher UK tariff, the UK would make it illegal to pay the wrong tariff.</p><p> </p><p>To enforce this, HMRC would carry out risk-based and targeted checks across the country, rather than at the border, according to intelligence and threat assessment that draw on a variety of information sources. This would protect against fraud, ensure that the UK has an effective trade remedies regime and strengthen the UK’s position in trade negotiations.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has a strong track record in tackling all kinds of avoidance, evasion and non-compliance and already has an established approach to customs compliance involving pre and post clearance activity away from the border, and would use this approach for the Facilitated Customs Arrangement.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has been allocated £260m of funding in 2018-19 to support the department in preparing for departure from the EU. The finalised allocation for 2018-19 will be confirmed at Supplementary Estimates in early 2019.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 23/07/2018 15:51:41 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4673 label Biography information for Jo Platt

942482

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 161 of the White Paper, The future relationship between the UK and the EU, Cm. 9593, published on 12 July 2018, what the evidential basis is for the statement that only 4 per cent of the UK goods trade would be likely to use the tariff repayment mechanism.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	164319
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The government is seeking to maximise the number of traders who will not need to interact with a voluntary repayment mechanism. For businesses that would be eligible for a tariff repayment, the government assesses that this would lead to neither net costs nor job losses for these businesses. This is because businesses would only enter into the voluntary repayment mechanism if they stand to benefit overall from the UK’s independent trade policy. The Government assesses that the eligibility for a repayment is most likely relevant to imports of intermediate goods from non-EU countries for which a tariff differential could arise which is equivalent to around 4% of total UK trade in goods. Further detail is set out in section 1.2.1 of the publication.</p><p>The government estimates that approximately 4% of UK goods trade in 2017 was of imports of intermediate goods from non-EU countries for which tariff differentials with the EU could arise from the UK’s independent trade policy. This trade will be most likely to use the repayment mechanism, since intermediate goods typically have longer and more complex supply chains than finished goods and are less likely to know their final destination or use at the point of import.</p><p>The remaining 96% is either: (i) trade with the EU or exports to non-EU countries, for which the tariff differentials at the UK border are not relevant under the FCA; (ii) imports which are unlikely to see tariff differentials with the EU, since they imported under zero MFN tariffs, from existing EU FTA partners or from LDCs; or (iii) imports of finished goods, which we assume will be able to pay the correct tariff at the UK border.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/07/2018 16:05:04 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

942483

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 161 of the White Paper, The future relationship between the UK and the EU, Cm. 9593, published on 12 July 2018, what the types of goods are which are likely to be included in the 4 per cent of the UK goods trade which will need to use the tariff repayment mechanism.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	164320
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The government estimates that approximately 4% of UK goods trade in 2017 was of imports of intermediate goods from non-EU countries for which tariff differentials with the EU could arise from the UK’s independent trade policy. This trade will be most likely to use the repayment mechanism, since intermediate goods typically have longer and more complex supply chains than finished goods and are less likely to know their final destination or use at the point of import.</p><p> </p><p>Examples of intermediate products that may use the repayment mechanism include car parts such as car batteries, machinery parts and industrial chemicals.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/07/2018 15:58:18 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

942484

registered interest
date	16/07/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to paragraph 161 of the White Paper, The future relationship between the UK and the EU, Cm. 9593, published on 12 July 2018, what the timetable is for setting up the systems needed to run the tariff repayment mechanism.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	164321
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2018 answer text <p>The precise details of the Facilitated Customs Arrangement – and therefore the delivery timescales - are subject to negotiations with the EU.</p><p> </p><p>The Government is accelerating its preparations to ensure that our new customs arrangement can be in place as soon as possible. Current implementation timelines suggest there will need to be a phased approach to delivery of the FCA.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 24/07/2018 16:01:07 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

926966

registered interest
date	19/06/2018
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	UK Trade with EU
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what discussions he has had with the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union on the use of the Excise Movement and Control System (a) during and (b) after the transition period.
tabling member constituency	Oxford East
tabling member printed	Anneliese Dodds
uin	155391
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/06/2018 answer text <p>The UK and EU negotiating teams have reached agreement on the terms of an implementation period that will start on 30 March 2019 and last until 31 December 2020. During the implementation period, the UK will no longer be a Member State of the European Union, but market access will continue on current terms.</p><p> </p><p>To give businesses and citizens certainty, common rules will remain in place until the end of the period meaning businesses will be able to trade on the same terms as now up until the end of 2020. Going forward, it will be for the UK government and Parliament to decide what excise rules we have, subject to the outcome of negotiations with the EU.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 27/06/2018 11:22:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
tabling member	4657 label Biography information for Anneliese Dodds