Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he plans to introduce country specific default emissions values for cement under the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism before 2029.

On 16 October, the Government published default values for 2027 and 2028. These are single product-level default values, based on a trade weighted approach with data from the EU excluded.

Alongside this, the Government published a Written Ministerial Statement in committing to introducing country-specific default values for the UK Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism from 2029. This includes for cement. It is not feasible to introduce country-specific default emissions values before 2029.

That Written Ministerial Statement can be found here:

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