Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what discussions he had with his counterpart in the Government of China during the recent trade mission on the dumping of ceramic products by that country.

My Rt Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for International Trade recently accompanied the Prime Minister on a visit to China, where the need for open and fair trade and a global effort to tackle overcapacity was raised at the highest levels of the Chinese government.

The Governments have regular contact on the full range of issues relating to trade and have launched a trade review to put this on a more formal footing.