Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 93702

Fruit and vegetables: Import Duties

Tabled: 24 November 2025
Answered: 1 December 2025
Named Day

Question

Dame Harriett Baldwin

ConservativeWest Worcestershire

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he plans to reduce the cost of groceries by reducing tariffs on fruit and vegetables not (a) grown and (b) processed in the UK.

Answer

Chris Bryant
As part of the Budget, the Government launched an application window for new duty suspensions on 26 November to help reduce import costs. Stakeholders have until 4 February 2026 to apply for the UK Global Tariff rate to be temporarily suspended on goods w...

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