Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she has taken with Cabinet colleagues to expedite a resumption of pork exports from UK pig processing plants, whose export licenses to China were voluntarily surrendered due to the covid-19 pandemic.
Answered by Graham Stuart
Ministers have raised this issue with their Chinese counterparts. The Department continues to press the Chinese authorities for a swift resolution and is working closely with affected UK pork processing plants.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the value of UK cod sales to Norway was in the most recent period for which that information is available; and what tariff will be imposed on future such sales under the terms of the new free trade agreement recently agreed between the UK and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.
Answered by Ranil Jayawardena
Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein provide a preferential rate of 0% for cod imports from Britain. In 2020, we exported approximately £1 million (382 tons) of cod to Norway. British exporters of cod will not face tariff barriers in future trade with any of these countries.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what terms have been agreed in the free trade agreement between the UK and Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein on UK sales of cod to Norway.
Answered by Ranil Jayawardena
Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein provide a preferential rate of 0% for cod imports from Britain. In 2020, we exported approximately £1 million (382 tons) of cod to Norway. British exporters of cod will not face tariff barriers in future trade with any of these countries.
Asked by: Dave Doogan (Scottish National Party - Angus)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
What recent progress she has made on negotiating free trade agreements with (a) the US and (b) Japan.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
We have launched negotiations with both the US and Japan and we want to secure ambitious trade deals that benefit every part of the UK. Scotland is expected to be a particularly strong beneficiary from both deals.