Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the vulnerability thresholds will be under the UK enhanced framework compared with the EU GSP+ system.

At the end of the Transition Period, the United Kingdom will create her Enhanced Framework, which will take a similar approach to the conditions in the EU GSP+.

To be eligible for the Enhanced Framework, countries may be economically vulnerable due to a lack of export diversification and low level of integration with the international trading system. A country may be considered economically vulnerable where:

• For products to which the Enhanced Framework applies, imports of the seven largest types of products from a country must make up more than 75% of all imports from that country;
• The ratio of the beneficiary’s import share in relation to the rest of the GSP beneficiaries must be lower than 9%.

A country will also be considered for inclusion as economically vulnerable if it benefitted from the EU GSP+ on 31^st December.