The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements and Tariff Quotas) (Ukraine) (Amendment) Regulations 2022

PART 3 Ukrainian trade preferences

Amendment of the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

5.—(1) Schedule 1 (Agreements to which these Regulations apply) to the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 is amended as follows.

(2) In the row relating to the Political, Free Trade and Strategic Partnership Agreement establishing an Association between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and Ukraine, for the entry in the second column, substitute—

“The Ukraine Preferential Tariff, version 1.3, dated 6th May 2022.”(1).

Amendment of the Customs (Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

6.—(1) The Customs (Tariff Quotas) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(2) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 39 (Surrender of an import licence), at the end insert—

“(3) Notwithstanding regulation 40, where—

(a) an import licence to import goods within quota numbers 05.4270, 05.4271, 05.4272, 05.4273, 05.4274, 05.4275, 05.4276, 05.4306, 05.4307, 05.4308, 05.4600, 05.4601 or 05.4602 is surrendered in accordance with paragraph (1); and

(b) the surrender of the licence is made within 1 month beginning at 6.00 pm on 10th May 2022,

any security held by the Secretary of State in relation to the licence, must be returned to the person who lodged the security.”.

(1)

The Ukraine Preferential Tariff, version 1.3, dated 6th May 2022 is available electronically at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-documents-for-the-customs-tariff-preferential-trade-arrangements-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Hard copies are held and available to view free of charge at the Department for International Trade, Old Admiralty Building, London SW1A 2DY. By virtue of section 32A of the Act (as inserted by section 75 of the Finance Act 2022 (c. 3)), references to that document are to that document as modified from time to time, or as replaced, by notice by the Treasury.

(2)

S.I. 2020/1432, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations.