{"value":{"id":944586,"memberId":223,"member":null,"memberRole":"Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board of Trade","uin":"HCWS878","dateMade":"2018-07-19T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":202,"answeringBodyName":"Department for International Trade","title":"Submission of UK's Goods Schedule at the World Trade Organization","text":"<p>I have previously informed the House that in order to fulfil our obligations at the World Trade Organization (WTO) as we leave the European Union we will prepare UK-specific schedules of concessions and commitments. I have today sent to the secretariat of the WTO the UK schedule for goods and I will place a copy in the library.</p><p>This schedule replicates, as far as possible, our current obligations. We see this as a technical exercise for which the WTO’s 1980 procedures provide the appropriate legal mechanism. That will be our first step.</p><p>Presenting our own UK Schedules at the WTO is a necessary part of our leaving the EU. It does not in any way prejudge the outcome of the eventual UK-EU trading arrangements.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":17,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/944586","method":"GET"}]}