Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 56515
Imports: Occupied Territories
Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025
Question
Alex Ballinger
Labour — Halesowen
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what estimate his Department has made of the amount of goods originating from Israeli settlements within the Occupied Palestinian Territories that are being labelled as originating from within Israel’s
Answer
Mr Douglas AlexanderHMRC are responsible for the conduct of origin verification checks on imported goods. Where there are doubts about the declared origin of goods, HMRC undertakes checks to verify the origin of those goods to ensure fiscal compliance. Data on imports from I...
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