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What’s in a name – why categorising products precisely matters for trade remedies

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What’s the difference between ‘Bicycles, tricycles and quadricycles, with pedal assistance, with an auxiliary electric motor with a continuous rated power not exceeding 250 watts’ and ‘Cycles, with pedal assistance, with an auxiliary electric motor’? They both have a unique commodity …

Trade remedies and climate change policy – allies or enemies?

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Trade remedies and climate change are both topical policy issues. But how do they fit together? Do they pull in the same direction? What might the future look like?   What are trade remedies? The UK’s Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) investigates …

A history of trade remedies in the UK: from alarm clocks to ironing boards

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What do mechanical alarm clocks, ladies’ raincoats, butter, rainbow trout and ironing boards have in common? The answer: trade remedies, i.e. duties on imports of these goods into the UK. UK trade remedies after EU exit The UK’s Trade Remedies …

Putting international trade remedies to the test

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Authorities around the world use different approaches to decide whether to put in place trade remedy measures. This blog post explains each of the 5 considerations in the UK’s approach and compares them with the practices of some other selected countries that conduct similar tests.