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Nic Dakin Excerpts
Thursday 17th May 2018

(5 years, 11 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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When it comes to protection post EU, we will have our own trade remedies measures. But of course the hon. Lady and her Labour colleagues voted against our being able to establish those when the legislation came to the House.

Nic Dakin Portrait Nic Dakin (Scunthorpe) (Lab)
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What is the Secretary of State doing with our partners to ensure that we do not suffer from diversionary dumping of steel as a result of what the US is doing?

Liam Fox Portrait Dr Fox
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We want to see a permanent exemption so that we do not get into that position in the first place, but we have made it clear that we would operate with our European partners to ensure that we took any measures necessary that were proportionate and within international trade law to ensure that the situation that the hon. Gentleman describes would not happen.