Asked by: John Nicolson (Scottish National Party - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what steps she has taken to help end tariffs applied to Scotch Whisky exports to the US.
Answered by Greg Hands
The Government continues to lobby the US and the EU for the settlement of the Airbus/Boeing disputes and the removal of tariffs. The UK has held multiple meetings and calls with the highest levels of the US administration, including with US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer; US Secretary of the Treasury, Steve Mnuchin; US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross; and US Ambassador Woody Johnson. In early August, Liz Truss visited the United States and successfully argued against any additional tariffs disproportionately impacting the UK. The UK is pushing both the EU and the US to settle these disputes.
Asked by: John Nicolson (Scottish National Party - Ochil and South Perthshire)
Question to the Department for International Trade:
To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, what representations she has made to the US Administration on tariffs on beer exports to the United States.
Answered by Ranil Jayawardena
On 10th July,?my Rt Hon. Friend?the Secretary of State?for International Trade?engaged the US Trade Representative, Robert Lighthizer, on how the potential tariffs could affect Britain’s brewers.
HM Government?takes?the negative impact of?US?tariffs very seriously. These tariffs are unnecessary, unhelpful and harm industry on both sides of the Atlantic.
We continue to raise the issue of tariffs with the highest levels of the US administration at every opportunity. Instead of escalating existing tariffs, we need to work together towards a negotiated settlement.