The Trade Remedies Authority

Part of Trade Bill – in a Public Bill Committee at 2:30 pm on 25 June 2020.

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Photo of Gareth Thomas Gareth Thomas Shadow Minister (International Trade) 2:30, 25 June 2020

Were I involved in such a parliamentary scrutiny process for the putative chair of the TRA, I would want to know, as I hope my hon. Friend would, the attitude of the chair to the EU-led multi-party interim appeal arbitration process, which is an attempt to get around Donald Trump’s blocking of the appointment of judges to the WTO dispute resolution process. That is surely a sensible scheme for the UK to join, and we would want to hear that the putative chair was supportive of it. The Minister has, again, been studiously vague on whether the UK would want to be part of such a sensible anti-dumping process.