The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2024

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

2.—(1) Schedule 1 (agreements to which these Regulations apply) to the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(1) is amended as follows(2).

(2) In the row relating to the Agreement establishing an Economic Partnership between the Eastern and Southern Africa States, on the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other part—

(a) for the entry in the first column, substitute—

“Agreement establishing an Economic Partnership between the Eastern and Southern Africa States, on the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other part, signed by the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Seychelles and the Republic of Zimbabwe on 31st January 2019, signed by the Republic of Madagascar on 4th November 2021 and signed by the Union of Comoros on 11th April 2022, and applied between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, of the one part, and the Republic of Madagascar, the Republic of Mauritius, the Republic of Seychelles and the Republic of Zimbabwe, of the other part.”.

(b) for the entry in the second column, substitute—

“The Eastern and Southern Africa States Preferential Tariff, version 2.2, dated 23 July 2024.”.

(c) for the entry in the third column, substitute—

“The Eastern and Southern Africa States Origin Reference Document, version 1.2, dated 23 July 2024.”.

(3) In the row relating to the Strategic Partnership, Trade and Co-operation Agreement between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the Republic of Moldova, for the entry in the second column, substitute—

“The Moldova Preferential Tariff, version 1.3, dated 23 July 2024.”.

(1)

S.I. 2020/1457. Schedule 1 was substituted by regulation 5 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2020/1657, and amended by S.I. 2021/241, 382, 527, 693, 871, 1192 and 1489 and 2022/174, 525, 613 and 899 and 2023/194, 195, 433, 774, 1192, 1339 and 1436 and 2024/303 and 424.

(2)

The reference documents referred to in regulation 2 of this instrument are available electronically from 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 Business and Trade, Old Admiralty Building, London SW1A 2DY. By virtue of section 32A of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (“the Act”) (as inserted by section 75 of the Finance Act 2022 (c. 3)), references to those documents are references to the documents as modified from time to time, or as replaced, by notice by the appropriate authority.