Consultation outcome

Designing the UK trade preferences scheme for developing nations

From:
Department for International Trade
Published
19 July 2021
Last updated
16 August 2022 — See all updates
This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
This consultation has concluded

Detail of outcome

The government’s policy response to this consultation is included in Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS): new policy report.

Feedback received

UK trade preferences scheme for developing countries: summary of responses

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Detail of feedback received

Thank you for your input into the consultation. We received 300 responses to the consultation in total. Respondents included representatives of businesses and business associations, governments, civil society organisations and individuals.

Respondents were generally in favour of the policy proposals suggested in the statement of direction, which accompanied the launch of the consultation. Many respondents provided useful information to help us shape the final scheme.

The summary of responses provides an overview of the responses received from the public consultation.

Original consultation

Summary

We’re seeking views on proposed changes to the trade preference scheme which reduces or removes import tariffs for 70 developing countries.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

We want to know what you think about proposed changes to the UK’s trade preference scheme. This is currently known as the UK Generalised Scheme of Preferences (GSP).

In particular, we want to hear your views on:

  • rules of origin requirements for least developed countries (LDCs)
  • reducing tariffs for low income and lower-middle income countries
  • the approach to goods graduation, which suspends reduced rates on some goods
  • the conditions and reporting requirements for low or lower-middle income countries

The new UK preferences scheme (the Developing Countries Trading Scheme) will take effect in 2022.

Consultation documents

We would prefer to receive responses using our online questionnaire tool.

The statement of direction provides details on the policy proposals.

The information pack sets out technical information and policy background on the UK GSP.

Documents

GSP consultation – commodity codes table

ODS, 2.78 MB

This file is in an OpenDocument format

Statement of direction: designing a new UK trade preferences scheme to take effect in 2022

PDF, 220 KB, 14 pages

Information pack on the UK’s Generalised Scheme of Preferences

PDF, 328 KB, 28 pages

GSP consultation questions (print version)

PDF, 336 KB, 56 pages

Updates to this page

Published 19 July 2021
Last updated 16 August 2022 + show all updates

  1. Addition of summary of responses to the consultation and link to the policy outcome set out in 'Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS): new policy report'.

  2. Added public feedback

  3. First published.

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