Asked by: Jessica Morden (Labour - Newport East)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what contingency plans his Department has made to ensure the maintenance of protections for UK steel producers introduced by the European Commission's definitive safeguard measures on imports of certain steel products, published on 16 January 2019 in the event that the UK leaves the EU without a deal.
Answered by George Hollingbery
In the event that the UK leaves the EU with no deal, Government’s priority is to provide continuity for UK industry wherever possible. Our transition policy is therefore to ensure UK industry retains appropriate trade remedy protections on exit, and so we are committed to carrying across existing measures where there is a UK interest, and then reviewing them to make them UK specific. We will follow this approach for any definitive safeguard measures that are in place on exit, as well as for existing anti-dumping and anti-subsidy measures.