Import Duties: Northern Ireland

(asked on 9th July 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans HMRC has to categorise all goods entering Northern Ireland as at risk from 1 January 2021.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 14th July 2020

HMRC are not making plans to categorise all goods entering Northern Ireland as ‘at risk’.

As the Government said in the Command Paper published on 20 May, “there should be no tariffs on goods remaining within the UK customs territory. Only those goods ultimately entering Ireland or the rest of the EU, or at clear and substantial risk of doing so, will face tariffs.”

This principle needs to be formalised with the EU within the Withdrawal Agreement Joint Committee.

The UK will not pay any of the tariffs it collects to the EU.

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