Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 56517

Imports: Occupied Territories

Tabled: 2 June 2025
Answered: 5 June 2025

Question

Alex Ballinger

LabourHalesowen

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what investigations his Department is conducting into goods originating from Israeli settlements within the Occupied Palestinian Territories being labelled as originating from within Israel’s pre-1967

Answer

Mr Douglas Alexander
The UK Government has a clear position that Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are illegal under international law. Goods produced in these settlements are not entitled to benefit from preferential tariff treatment under the UK’s ...

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