Agricultural Products: New Zealand

(asked on 21st June 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for International Trade:

To ask the Secretary of State for International Trade, with reference to her Department's report, UK-New Zealand free trade agreement: the UK's strategic approach, published 17 June 2020, what the (a) percentage increase is of UK imports of New Zealand agricultural products modelled under scenario two, either in point estimates or a range of outcomes and (b) forecast increase is in total quantity of imports underpinning that estimate, expressed in (i) volume and/or (ii) financial value, either in point estimates or a range of outcomes.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 28th June 2021

The scoping assessments published in June 2020 for Australia and New Zealand, and the US scoping assessment published in March 2020 assessed the potential impacts of possible deals in advance of negotiations, under various scenarios.

The assessments included estimates of the long run impacts on imports from these countries into the UK if the scenarios described in these assessments were implemented. The final agreement that the UK negotiates with these partners will differ from the scenarios described in those scoping assessments. Following the conclusion of negotiations, a full impact assessment will be published.

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