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Imports: Israeli Settlements

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Question for Department for Business and Trade

UIN 192388, tabled on 4 July 2023

Question

Liz Saville Roberts
Plaid Cymru
Dwyfor Meirionnydd
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what assessment she has made of the potential merits of implementing a ban on importing goods produced in Israeli settlements which the UK considers to be illegal; and if she will make an estimate of the quantity of goods imported from those areas in the last 12 months.

Answer

Nigel Huddleston
Conservative
Mid Worcestershire
Commons

Answered on

17 July 2023

There are no import sanctions on goods originating from Israeli settlements and no plans to introduce any bans. The UK government has always been clear on this. Under the existing UK-Israel trade agreement, goods originating from illegal Israeli settlements are not entitled to tariff and trade preferences under either the agreement between the UK and Israel, nor the agreement between the UK and the Palestinian Authority. I can confirm that this will not change in the upgraded free trade agreement with Israel.

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