Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, pursuant to the Answer of 17 January 2023 to Question 119982 on Iron and Steel: Russia, if she will take steps to prevent steel exported from Russia from entering the UK through third countries.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
The UK Government does not speculate on future sanctions measures as to do so could reduce their impact. We will continue to apply pressure against Putin and his regime, until Ukraine prevails, or Putin ends his war of choice.
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave him on 17 January 2023, UIN 119982, for further detail on the measures on iron and steel taken to date.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, whether her Department has made an estimate of the volumes of Russian steel potentially entering the UK after being processed in third countries.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave him on 17 January 2023, UIN 119982.
Asked by: Bill Esterson (Labour - Sefton Central)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what estimate her Department has made of the volume of Russian steel entering the UK via third countries.
Answered by Andrew Bowie - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Energy Security and Net Zero)
In response to Russia’s illegal invasion of Ukraine the UK has announced an unprecedented package of measures to cut off the funding for Putin’s war machine. This includes targeting steel products, a key revenue source for Russia, where we have banned the import of all finished steel and implemented tariff increases of 35 percentage points on all steel from Russia. Since April, the UK has imported no steel defined as finished or semi-finished directly from Russia.
The Government recognises that any circumvention of sanctions measures through third countries undermines their wider impact. We are working alongside international partners to build an evidence basis of any such activity.