The Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) recommended to vary the application of the anti-dumping and countervailing amount under regulation 100A of the regulations so that it applies to the goods subject to review imported to the UK.
The Secretary of State decided to reject the recommendation because he was satisfied that it was not in the public interest to accept it. The Secretary of State decided that the application of the countervailing amount should be varied other that in accordance with the recommendation, and varied the period for the application of the rates recommended by the TRA.
The Secretary of State took this decision because:
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for the duties which the TRA has recommended are reduced, the reason is that it is fair to apply these reduced duties from the point of EU Exit, noting that in 2022 the European Commission lost a legal challenge with respect to the calculation of the duties that the UK transitioned on 1 January 2021
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for the duties which the TRA has recommended are increased, the reason is that it is in accordance with The World Trade Organization rules on prospectivity and fairer to apply the increased duties recommended by the TRA prospectively
These changes affect the following commodity codes:
- 4011209000
- 4012120010
Further information on the anti-dumping duties can be found in Trade Remedies Notice 2025/17.
Further information on the countervailing duties can be found in Trade Remedies Notice 2025/18.
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