Written Question·Department for Business and Trade·UIN 104491

Iron and Steel: Safeguard Measures

Tabled: 9 January 2026

Answered: 16 January 2026

Question

Kevin Hollinrake

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of the removal of tariff rate quota safeguarding measures for bright steel bar (category 27) in 2021 on UK producers; and whether he plans to r

Answer

Chris McDonald

In 2021, the Trade Remedies Authority (TRA) conducted a transition review of the steel safeguard measure which is applied via tariff-rate quotas. The TRA recommended maintaining protections on steel categories only where justified; bright steel bar (categ...

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