PARLIAMENTARY DEBATE
Manufacturing Industry: Lesser Duty Rule - 28 November 2017 (Commons/Commons Chamber)
Debate Detail
Contributions from Sir Mel Stride, are highlighted with a yellow border.
Gareth Snell
Stoke-on-Trent Central
12:01:37
Mel Stride
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury
When we leave the European Union, we will ensure that we have a robust remedies regime in place. It will ensure that we have robust measures to take against dumping, excessive subsidy and import surges. Part of that will be a lesser duty rule, as we have with the European Union at present, to ensure that the measures we take are proportionate in protecting our producers at the same time as protecting the interests of consumers and other downstream businesses.
12:02:01
Gareth Snell
I thank the Financial Secretary for that answer, but he will be beware that the provisions of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill will be some of the least generous in World Trade Organisation countries once we have left the European Union. Will he meet me and the British Ceramic Confederation, which genuinely wishes to work with him to make the Bill better, so that we can protect British manufacturing once we are outside the EU?
Mel Stride
Yes, I will.
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