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Written Question
Iron and Steel: Russia
Monday 30th January 2023

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 - Shadow Minister (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.

Written Question
Iron and Steel: Russia
Friday 20th January 2023

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 - Shadow Minister (Energy Security and Net Zero)

I refer the Honourable Member to the answer I gave him on 17 January 2023, UIN 119982.

Written Question
Iron and Steel: Russia
Tuesday 17th January 2023

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 - Shadow Minister (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.

Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)

"It is always a pleasure to see you in the Chair, Mr Pritchard. I was struck by a number of points that my hon. Friend the Member for Harrow West made about the fact that the Bill is about procurement alone, and about the way that it has been drawn …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)

"Did my hon. Friend notice that the Minister did not actually address one of the central points that he and I raised, which is that the opportunity would be widened to all countries that are signed up to the GPA? That causes great concern about the loss of contracts to …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)

"My hon. Friend is making the case very well about the need to involve the farming and agriculture industry in trade agreement scrutiny. Was she struck, like I was, by the comments from Jonnie Hall of NFU Scotland about “retrospective scrutiny” and the fact that this weakened the role of …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)

"My hon. Friend makes good points about the way that France and European Union scrutinise trade agreements. In the context of agriculture, the other really good example is the United States. Recently, the United States trade unions had access to negotiating texts during the negotiation period and were able to …..."
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Speech in Public Bill Committees - Tue 18 Oct 2022
Trade (Australia and New Zealand) Bill (Third sitting)

"My hon. Friend is talking about consultation and amendment 5 refers to the representatives of the English regions. Earlier, the Minister was talking about Essex County Council. He did not mention Southend-on-Sea City Council, where he is a Member of Parliament. I could not help but notice that the procurement …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 19 Jul 2022
Australia-UK Free Trade Agreement: Scrutiny

"Promises were made during the passage of two trade Bills, and those promises—for a debate on the Floor of the House before ratification—have been repeated ever since by Ministers. The Minister knows only too well that scrutiny after ratification is no scrutiny at all, so why have the Government not …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 29 Jun 2022
Steel Safeguards

"Leaving it until the last minute to announce the renewal of safeguards denies UK steel producers certainty. Certainty matters if they are to secure investment, and investment matters in an industry that is strategically important for our economic and national security. The Secretary of State has talked a lot about …..."
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