Written question asked by Gareth Thomas (Labour) on Monday, 28 February 2022, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 2 March 2022. It was answered by Ranil Jayawardena (Conservative) on Thursday, 10 March 2022 on behalf of the Department for International Trade.

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Preferential Tariffs

Question

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what the Preference Utilisation Rates are in total for UK trade with (a) Antigua and Barbuda, (b) Bahamas, (c) Barbados, (d) Belize, (e) Dominica, (f) Dominican Republic, (g) Grenada, (h) Guyana, (i) Jamaica, (j) St Kitts and Nevis, (k) Saint Lucia, (l) St Vincent and Grenadines, (m) Suriname, (n) Trinidad and Tobago and (o) for the Cariforum Trade Bloc as a whole in each of the last five years; and if she will make a statement.

Answer

Data up to the end of January 2020 is publicly available, but no comparable data is available for after this period.

Exports analysis 2017-19: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/159047.htm

Imports analysis 2017-19: https://trade.ec.europa.eu/doclib/html/159046.htm

Eurostat preference utilisation data for all periods 2000 to end January 2020: Easy Comext, Adjusted extra-EU imports since 2000 by tariff regime (DS-059281).

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Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

131042

Session

2021-22

Grouped for answer

Yes

Subjects

Preferential tariffs

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

View this Written question on www.parliament.uk