UK Releases Guidance on Trade Remedies Investigations Process After Brexit

The United Kingdom’s Department for International Trade released a guidance Feb. 6 on its trade remedies investigations process after the U.K. leaves the European Union. The U.K. clarified that its Trade Remedies Investigations Directorate (TRID) will investigate new cases of dumped and subsidized imports once the U.K. leaves the EU Customs Union, which will allow the U.K. to issue trade remedies to “protect UK industries.” During the Brexit transition period, TRID will perform “transition reviews into current EU trade remedy measures which are relevant to UK industries,” the guidance says. The guidance provides more details on that process, how the UK will assess injuries to UK industries and how it will consider “possible causes of injury.”

The U.K. said it will begin reviewing 43 EU trade remedy measures that were “deemed important to UK industries and should be maintained,” the DIT said in a Feb. 6 press release. The TRID will review a range of trade remedy measures, including antidumping duties on imports of Chinese ceramic kitchen and tableware, antidumping and antisubsidy duties on imports of Chinese bus and lorry tires, and antidumping duties on imports of aluminum foil in small rolls. The U.K. will ask industry members, international exporters and other stakeholders to participate in the process.