Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask Her Majesty's Government why tariffs are not charged on completed diesel generator sets imported into the UK from ‘most favoured nations’ when some of the components that are required to manufacture such sets in the UK are subject to tariffs.

The UK’s ‘Most Favoured Nation’ tariff, the UK Global Tariff (UKGT), replaced the EU’s Common External Tariff on 1 January 2021. The UKGT is a bespoke tariff schedule that is tailored to the needs of the UK economy and UK businesses, reflecting UK interests and our free trade ambitions.

In designing the UKGT, we sought to balance a wide range of considerations, such as the interests of UK consumers and producers, our ambitious trade agenda, our commitment to developing countries and feedback provided through the public consultation; to which we received over 1,300 responses from a wide range of stakeholders across the UK.

We cannot reliably inform on specific tariffs without the specific commodity codes. The new Trade Tariff lookup tool is a simple way to check the tariff rate applying to a particular product.