EXPLANATORY NOTE
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
Regulation 2 amends the Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) (EU Exit) (Regulations) 2019 (S.I. 2019/449).
Regulation 3 amends the Trade Remedies (Dumping and Subsidisation) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/450). In particular, new regulations 96E to 96I are inserted into Part 12 of those Regulations. Regulation 96E gives the TRA the power to conduct a UK trade remedies measure exemption review and to recommend that the application of a UK trade remedies measure to a review applicant’s goods should be suspended pending the outcome of the review. Regulation 96F gives the Secretary of State the power to accept or reject a recommendation on suspension. Regulation 96G makes provision for the TRA to make a recommendation that goods imported by an importer or overseas exporter into the UK should be exempted from the application of a UK trade remedies measure that applies an EU trade remedies measure that was extended following an EU circumvention review. Regulation 96H makes provision for the Secretary of State to accept or reject that recommendation. Regulation 99A(1) of those Regulations is amended to clarify what the TRA must consider when conducting a transition review.
Regulation 4 amends the Trade Remedies (Reconsideration and Appeals) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/910).
A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.