The Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports as a Result of a Free Trade Agreement Causing Serious Injury to UK Producers) Regulations 2024

Registration of interest and the issuing of questionnaires

23.—(1) Where the Secretary of State has requested the TRA to initiate a bilateral safeguarding investigation, the TRA must set a period during which interested parties and any other person may make themselves known to the TRA (a “registration period”).

(2) The TRA may issue a questionnaire (see regulation 24) to—

(a) interested parties who have made themselves known to the TRA during the registration period,

(b) UK producers, importers and overseas exporters (or associations thereof) which the Secretary of State has identified in their request to the TRA to initiate a bilateral safeguarding investigation, and

(c) contributors who have made themselves known to the TRA during the registration period.

(3) Where the TRA uses a limited examination in accordance with regulation 25 (limited examination), it may limit the issuing of questionnaires to those interested parties included in that examination.

(4) Where an interested party or a contributor makes themselves known to the TRA after the end of the registration period, the TRA may issue a questionnaire to that person if it is satisfied that doing so would not significantly impede the progress of the bilateral safeguarding investigation.

(5) Where an interested party makes themselves known to the TRA after the end of the registration period, the TRA may include that party in a limited examination in accordance with regulation 25.