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Lord Dodds of Duncairn (DUP)

Speaking in the House of Lords on 18 March 2025

Debate

US Tariffs on EU Goods

Contribution

My Lords, the fundamental problem is that part of the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, is forced to impose tariffs on US imports in a situation where the rest of the UK may not. That is without any reference to the UK Government, this Parliament, the Northern Ireland Government or the Northern Ireland legislature, so that colonial set-up has to be rectified. In the absence of a rectification of the fundamental problem, the Minister referred to the tariff reimbursement scheme, but the head of Manufacturing NI said in the Financial Times that the scheme is “nonsense” and full of red tape, and that “few companies have been able to successfully navigate it”. He knows about business. Is he right, or do the Government know better?

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