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Government has taken further action to help secure the UK's supplies of critical goods with the launch of the new Critical Imports Council.

• Updated: 17 April 2024

Extension review finds imports would likely increase if the safeguard measure were to expire and serious injury to the UK's steel industry would likely recur.

• Updated: 21 February 2024

Nick Whittingham, British Ambassador to Guatemala, highlighted the opportunities arising from the new government’s economic plans at a briefing in the Guatemalan Central Bank.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

The TRA has initiated a suspension review and Tariff Rate Quota review of the current safeguards measure on Category 1 steel products.

• Updated: 9 February 2024

The UK is to implement a new import carbon pricing mechanism by 2027 to support the decarbonisation drive.

• Updated: 19 December 2023

Government announces new unit to clamp down on companies evading sanctions.

• Updated: 11 December 2023

The TRA will reconsider its recommendation to impose a countervailing duty of 4.02%, following an application from Milenyum Metal.

• Updated: 8 December 2023

The UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, gave a statement during Hong Kong, China's WTO Trade Policy Review (TPR).

• Updated: 6 December 2023

In its initial findings the TRA recommends maintaining anti-dumping duties for another five years to continue protecting the UK’s cast iron articles industry.

• Updated: 30 November 2023

Speech delivered by Baroness Neville-Rolfe, Minister of State at the Cabinet Office, at the Import Export Show on 15 November 2023.

• Updated: 15 November 2023

British goods remain eligible for reduced or zero tariffs to Mexico after UK secures extension to ‘rules of origin’ provisions

• Updated: 10 November 2023

The UK's Permanent Representative to the WTO and UN in Geneva, Simon Manley, gave a statement during Chinese Taipei’s fifth WTO Trade Policy Review (TPR).

• Updated: 8 November 2023

Following a public consultation, the government has set out reforms for the wine sector which will begin in 2024.

• Updated: 16 October 2023

The Department for Business and Trade has appointed Martin Kent as His Majesty’s Trade Commissioner (HMTC) for Asia Pacific

• Updated: 18 September 2023

The UK government confirms it will be reviewing its Energy Charter Treaty membership, and considering withdrawal if vital modernisation is not agreed.

• Updated: 1 September 2023

An update on the implementation of the Customs Declaration Service (CDS) and the transition from the Customs Handling of Import and Export Freight (CHIEF).

• Updated: 23 August 2023

UK Statement: 4th Trade Policy Review of Honduras at the WTO in Geneva, 12 & 14 July 2023. Delivered by the UK's Ambassador to the WTO and UN, Simon Manley.

• Updated: 20 July 2023

UK Day 1 Statement: 4th Trade Policy Review of Fiji at the WTO in Geneva, 19 July 2023. Delivered by the UK's Ambassador to the WTO and UN, Simon Manley.

• Updated: 20 July 2023

The Minister for International Trade welcomed the Governor of Illinois to announce the intent to pursue a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the UK and Illinois

• Updated: 18 July 2023

Secretary of State for Business and Trade's request for Trade and Agriculture Commission advice on the UK accession to the CPTPP.

• Updated: 17 July 2023