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1: Kemi Badenoch (Con - Saffron Walden) Last week, I attended the World Trade Organisation’s 13th ministerial conference MC13—in Abu Dhabi with - Speech Link
Feb. 29 2024
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Asked by: Lord Wigley (Plaid Cymru - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask His Majesty's Government what estimate they have made of the volume and value of cheese exports to Canada in each of the last five years, and what assessment they have made of the likely impact on those figures of not concluding a trade agreement with Canada.
Answered by Lord Offord of Garvel - Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Between 2018 and 2022 the UK exported between 1.5 and 2.2 kilotonnes of cheese to Canada each year, worth between £11 million and £18.7 million.
Prior to 1 January 2024, UK exporters could export cheese to Canada through a Canadian importer with a licence for Canada’s “EU” World Trade Organisation quota. As of 1 January 2024, the Canadian importer must have a licence for Canada’s “non EU” World Trade Organisation quota to import UK cheese.
Feb. 27 2024
Source Page: TRA upholds recommendations on aluminium extrusions from ChinaFound: submitted by the applicant within the rules set out in the UK’s regulatory framework and the underlying World
Dec. 19 2023
Source Page: Letter dated 12/12/2023 from Lord Johnson of Lainston to Lord Lansley regarding issues raised in the Trade (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) Bill Committee stage debate (first day): exemption for contracts funded by international organisations under the WTO agreement on Government Procurement (GPA), and under CPTPP. 2p.Found: Letter dated 12/12/2023 from Lord Johnson of Lainston to Lord Lansley regarding issues raised in the Trade
Dec. 21 2023
Source Page: WTO General Council Dec 2023. UK statement on International Trade CentreFound: UK statement on International Trade Centre
Dec. 19 2023
Source Page: Protecting your copyright abroadFound: Convention for the Protection of Performers, Producers of Phonograms and Broadcasting Organisations World
Asked by: Lord Dodds of Duncairn (Democratic Unionist Party - Life peer)
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask His Majesty's Government which specific legal obligations require them to notify the EU about planned legislative changes to the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998.
Answered by Lord Douglas-Miller - Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs)
HM Government is required to allow the EU to provide comments on notified proposed technical regulations in accordance with Article 94 of the Trade and Co-operation Agreement between the UK and the EU.
In discharging this obligation, the notification of planned legislative changes to the Bread and Flour Regulations 1998 was circulated to the World Trade Organisation Technical Barriers to Trade Committee on 9th February 2024.
In accordance with arrangements provided in the Windsor Framework notification of the European Commission is also required under Assimilated Regulation (EC) No 1925/2006 Article 11 and Directive (EU) 2015/1535 Article 5(1) in respect of planned amendments to the Bread and Flour Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998.
The EU commission were notified under the Windsor Framework of the planned amendments to the Bread and Flour Regulations (Northern Ireland) on the 8th of February 2024.
Asked by: Mark Pritchard (Conservative - The Wrekin)
Question to the Department for Business and Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what steps she is taking to extend the eligibility of British cheese producers to export cheese to Canada under the reserve for the European Union within Canada's World Trade Organisation Tariff Rate Quota until 31 December 2025.
Answered by Greg Hands - Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
Negotiations with Canada on this issue are ongoing. Our key aim is to ensure that we maintain current market access for the UK dairy sector. We have longstanding rights to this access at the World Trade Organisation, and a long-term solution is in the best interests of businesses on both sides of the Atlantic. We continue to make that clear to the Canadian government at Ministerial and official level.
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