G/SG/N/1/GBR/1/Suppl.11  
 
2 July 2021  
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Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER  
ARTICLE 12.6 OF THE AGREEMENT  
UNITED KINGDOM  
Supplement  
The following communication, dated and received on 1 July 2021, is being circulated at the request 
of the delegation of the United Kingdom . 
 
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In accordance with the obligations under Article 12.6 of the Agreement on Safeguards to notify laws, 
regulations and administrative procedures to the Committee on Safeguards, the Government of the 
United Kingdom hereby notifies the Committees of the enclosed regulations relevant to the 
Agreement.  
 
The regulations are made under the Taxation (Cross -border Trade) Act 2018, which imposes and 
regulate the duty of customs by reference to the importation of goods. This includes setting  out the 
framework for the United Kingdom 's trade remedies system. The regulations allow the Secretary of 
State for International Trade to make a public notice to apply a tariff rate quota on certain steel 
products.  
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  2021 NO. 783  
CUSTOMS  
TRADE  
THE TRADE REMEDIES (EXTENSION OF TARIFF RATE QUOTA)  
(EU EXIT) REGULATIONS 2021  
 
Made - - - -at 5.40 p.m. on 30th June 2021  
Laid before the House of Commons - - - -1st July 2021  
Coming into force - -at 6.00 p.m. on 30th June 2021  
 
The Secretary of State makes t he following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by 
sections 51(1) and 56(1) of the Taxation (Cross -border Trade) Act 20181. 
 
In accordance with sections 51(10) and 56(13) of that Act, the Secretary of State has consulted the 
Trade Remedies Au thority2. 
 
Citation, commencement and extent  
 
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Trade Remedies (Extension of Tariff Rate 
Quota)(EU  Exit) Regulations 2021 and come into force at 6.00 p.m. on 30th June 2021.  
 
(2) These Regulations extend to the whole of the United Kingdom.  
 
Interpretation  
 
2.In these Regulations — 
 
"the Act " means the Taxation (Cross -border Trade) Act 2018;  
 
"the Regulations " means the Trade Remedies (Increase in Imports Causing Serious Injury to UK 
Producers) (EU Exit) Regulations 20193; 
 
"additional rate of import duty " has the same meaning as in regulation 45 of the Regulations;  
 
"import duty " has the same meaning as in se ction 1 of the Act;  
 
"particular foreign country or territory " means a country or territory to which regulation 46(7)of the 
Regulations applies (developing country) or in relation to which the conditions in regulation 44(2) 
are satisfied (signatories to fr ee trade agreements);  
 
"tariff rate quota " means a quota for a specified period during which a lower rate of import duty 
should be applicable to imports of goods within the amount of the quota than is applicable to imports 
of goods outside the amount of th e quota;  
 
"taxation notice " means the notice made under regulation 47(2) of the Regulations.  
 
 
1 2018 c. 22. Sections 51(4) and 56(5) define “the appropriate Minister” as including the Secretary of State in any case 
where  the provision relates to anything dealt with by section 13 and Schedules 4 and 5.  
2 Established by the Trade Act 2021 (c. 10).  
3 S.I. 2019/449, amended by S.I. 2019/1076, S.I. 2019/1319, S.I. 2020/99 and S.I. 2020/730.  G/SG/N/1/GBR/1/Suppl.11  
 
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  Secretary of State 's power to make a public notice  
 
3.—(1) The Secretary of State may by a notice published in such manner as the Secretary of State 
considers appropriate make provision for a tariff rate quota to apply in relation to all or some of the 
steel products specified in the taxation notice.  
 
(2) The Secretary of State 's power to make a notice under paragraph (1) includes a power to amend 
or withdraw the notice.  
 
Effect of the public notice  
 
4.For the purposes of the Act and the Regulations — 
 
(a) a notice made under regulation 3(1) is to be treated as if it were a public notice made under 
section 13(3) of the Act (and accordingly any reference to a public notice made under section 13(3) 
is to be treated as including a reference to a public notice made under regulation 3(1));  
 
(b) a tariff rate quota that applies to goods by virtue of a notice made under regulation 3(1) is to be 
treated as a tari ff rate quota that applies to goods following the Secretary of State 's acceptance of 
a recommendation under paragraph 16(3) of Schedule 5 to the Act.  
 
Contents of the public notice  
 
5.A notice made under regulation 3(1) must specify — 
 
(a) the products to which the tariff rate quota applies;  
 
(b) the period for which the tariff rate quota applies;  
 
(c) the amount of the tariff rate quota;  
 
(d) the allocation of the tariff rate quota;  
 
(e) the additional rate of import duty;  
 
(f) the terms on whi ch a part or the whole of a tariff rate quota is allocated or may be used;  
 
(g) where the tariff rate quota does not apply to goods originating from a particular foreign country 
or territory.  
 
Signed by authority of the Secretary of State  
 
 
Ranil Jayawarde na 
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State  
Department for International Trade  
At 5.40 p.m. on 30th June 2021  
 
 
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