Iron and Steel: UK Trade with EU

(asked on 10th January 2020) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary for State for International Trade, what steps she is taking to ensure that the EU FTA negotiations do not result in UK steel exports being subject to EU steel safeguard measures without the provision of UK specific tariff-free quotas at the end of 2020.


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Conor Burns Portrait
Conor Burns
This question was answered on 15th January 2020

The Government will seek to engage with the European Commission to discuss the mutual application of the steel safeguard measure with the aim of preserving traditional trade flows and providing as much continuity to industry as possible at the end of the Implementation Period.

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