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皇冠体育app Trade Remedies Authority has today (Wednesday 24 November) initiated a reconsideration of its recommendation in the .

Reconsiderations are an established part of the UK鈥檚 tax regime, with many different arms of the Government incorporating them as part of their standard operating procedures. 皇冠体育appy are one of the main ways businesses can continue to make their case once a decision that affects them has been made. If applicants meet the criteria required, a reconsideration will always be undertaken.

At the end of the reconsideration process, the TRA will reach a reconsidered decision either upholding or varying its recommendation and will notify this to the Secretary of State for International Trade.

皇冠体育app initiation today follows one submission received from a UK producer requesting that the TRA reconsider its recommendation. 皇冠体育app TRA anticipates it will take several months to complete the reconsideration review.

About the TRA鈥檚 original recommendation

In August, the TRA recommended to the Secretary of State for International Trade that the UK continue to apply existing anti-dumping duties to imports from China and Belarus but not to imports from Russia. 皇冠体育app TRA also recommended that the scope of the measure be changed to exclude one of the four types of product covered by the measure, as no UK producer of that product was identified.

was accepted by the Secretary of State for International Trade.

皇冠体育app reconsideration process

Following the Secretary of State鈥檚 decision, the TRA received a submission from one domestic steel producer asking the TRA to reconsider the original recommendation.

皇冠体育app steel producer originally advised the TRA that it did not manufacture the product in question, but after the TRA published its Statement of Essential Facts, it emerged that it was in fact involved in the production of some quantities of the goods. As such, it has argued that the measure on this product should not be revoked. In addition, it has argued that the duties should not be revoked on imports from Russia.

皇冠体育app TRA鈥檚 reconsideration will cover the same remit as the original transition review. It will consider, within the rules set in the UK鈥檚 regulatory framework and the underlying World Trade Organisation obligations, whether the application received and the additional information it contains necessitates a different recommendation to that originally given to the Secretary of State for International Trade.

Background

• 皇冠体育app Trade Remedies Authority is the UK body that investigates whether new trade remedy measures are needed to counter unfair import practices and unforeseen surges of imports.
• 皇冠体育app UK trade remedies regime is set by the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Act 2018 and the Trade Act 2021, which operationalise the World Trade Organisation (WTO) agreements covering trade remedies.
• Reconsiderations are part of the process that parties can use to ask the TRA to look again at its decisions. Many government departments, non-departmental public bodies and other government agencies (including decision-making bodies on taxation and benefits) provide for interested parties to request an internal reconsideration of a decision as part of their standard processes.
• For a reconsideration to be undertaken by the TRA, applicants must meet the following criteria:
  • set out the grounds for their application
  • explain the outcome they are looking for
  • demonstrate that they are eligible to apply for a reconsideration of this decision.
• If an application does not meet any or all of the three criteria set out above, the TRA will review this and may ultimately reject an application.
• Further information on the TRA鈥檚 process for reconsiderations can be found in the TRA鈥檚 online guidance.
• Anti-dumping measures are one of the three types of trade remedies allowed by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). 皇冠体育appse measures place duties on products when they are dumped 鈥� unfairly imported into a country at prices below what they would be sold for in the country where they are made. 皇冠体育app other two measures are countervailing measures which counter unfair subsidies on imported goods and safeguard measures which address unforeseen surges of imports.
• When the UK left the EU, it transitioned across 43 trade remedy measures which were of interest to UK industries into UK law. 皇冠体育app TRA was then required to carry out a review of each measure. This is because the measures were originally put in place based on data from across all the EU member states. If the UK is to keep them, it needs to demonstrate that they are needed to protect against unfair trade practices which are damaging or could damage UK industries.