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	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Fairtrade Initiative: Trade Agreements
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps her Department is taking to ensure that fair trade goods continue to have access to UK markets under new trading arrangements.
	tabling member constituency	Ynys Môn
	tabling member printed	Virginia Crosbie
	uin	163332
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK’s Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) and Generalised Scheme of Preferences support developing countries to export agricultural products and other goods to the UK. We have secured EPAs with 30 African, Caribbean, and Pacific countries, covering<del class="ministerial"> over</del> £18bn of trade. We plan to deepen our EPA agreements and expand them to new countries in the future.</p><p>Independent certification schemes, such as Fairtrade, which set standards on social, economic and environmental issues for companies, continue to operate within the context of UK trading arrangements.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/03/2021 11:32:14 question first ministerially corrected 09/03/2021 14:14:46 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands previous answer version 88379 answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4859 label Biography information for Virginia Crosbie

1293598

	registered interest
	date	01/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements: Canada
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what progress she is making to secure a free trade agreement with Canada.
	tabling member constituency	Bosworth
	tabling member printed	Dr Luke Evans
	uin	160819
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The UK-Canada Trade Continuity Agreement (TCA) was signed on 9 December 2020 and completed Constitutional Reform and Governance (CRaG) in Parliament on 3 February 2021. Once ratified in Canada, the TCA will lock in preferential trade in goods and services worth £23 billion in 2019. We also signed a <em>memorandum of understanding</em> (MOU) with Canada on 21 December 2020 ensuring continued preferential goods trade pending full ratification. The TCA sets out a clear path to begin negotiating a new, more ambitious trade deal, which will be tailored to the British economy and interests. The Department is currently preparing for these talks with a view to beginning negotiations later in the year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/03/2021 15:37:30 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4781 label Biography information for Dr Luke Evans

1299329

	registered interest
	date	03/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Overseas Trade: USA
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, when she plans to announce the launch of a consultation on the 232 rebalancing tariffs applied to US products.
	tabling member constituency	West Dunbartonshire
	tabling member printed	Martin Docherty-Hughes
	uin	162626
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>The Department is planning to launch a consultation on the rebalancing measures the UK is taking in response to the US unjustified tariffs on steel, aluminium and derivatives later this year.</p> answering member constituency Chelsea and Fulham answering member printed Greg Hands question first answered 09/03/2021 15:47:17 answering member 1526 label Biography information for Greg Hands
	tabling member	4374 label Biography information for Martin Docherty-Hughes

1299623

	registered interest
	date	04/03/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Arms Trade: Saudi Arabia
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether current licences for components for bombs issued on 4 August 2020 include contracts for Raytheon Systems UK to deliver Paveway IVs or components thereof to Saudi Arabia; and whether she has made an assessment of the effect of the the US and Italian Government's decisions to suspend or revoke certain sales and export licences to Saudi Arabia on the UK export of aerial ground-attack munitions and their components to Saudi Arabia.
	tabling member constituency	Coventry South
	tabling member printed	Zarah Sultana
	uin	163319
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>HM Government will continue to take its export responsibilities seriously and assess all export licences in accordance with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria (the ‘Consolidated Criteria’). The decisions of other countries are matters for them.</p><p> </p><p>Disclosure of information relating to private contracts between businesses would be inappropriate.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency North East Hampshire answering member printed Mr Ranil Jayawardena question first answered 09/03/2021 15:53:18 answering member 4498 label Biography information for Mr Ranil Jayawardena
	tabling member	4786 label Biography information for Zarah Sultana

1289168

	registered interest
	date	23/02/2021
	answering body	Department for International Trade
	answering dept id	202
	answering dept short name	International Trade
	answering dept sort name	International Trade
	hansard heading	Trade Agreements
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Grimstone of Boscobel on 22 February (HL13173), whether they will now answer the question put, namely, further to the UK's departure from the EU, with which countries they have signed continuity trade agreements.
	tabling member printed	Lord Grocott
	uin	HL13586
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/03/2021 answer text <p>We have secured trade agreements with 65 countries, plus the EU, covering £890 billion of trade in 2019, equivalent to 63% of the United Kingdom’s total trade.</p><p>On 2<sup>nd</sup> March, HM Government signed a Trade Partnership Agreement with Ghana.</p><p>Some countries with which we have signed agreements have not been able to bring the agreement into effect or have not been able to do so fully. They are in the process of completing the final necessary steps to allow the agreements to enter into effect fully. This is the case for Canada, Jordan and Mexico.</p><p>We have set out on GOV.UK the signed agreements that entered into effect on 1<sup>st</sup> January and have published advice for those agreements that are not in place fully. The link can be found here: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/guidance/uk-trade-agreements-with-non-eu-countries</a>.</p> answering member printed Lord Grimstone of Boscobel question first answered 09/03/2021 11:26:22 answering member 4876 label Biography information for Lord Grimstone of Boscobel
	tabling member	276 label Biography information for Lord Grocott