The Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Amendment) Regulations 2024

Amendment of the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

2.—(1) The Table in Schedule 1 to the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020(1) (which relates to agreements to which those Regulations apply) is amended as follows(2).

(2) In a new row to be inserted immediately above the entry in respect of the Agreement establishing an Economic Partnership between the Eastern and Southern African States, on the one part, and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, on the other part—

(a) in the first column insert—

“The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (“CPTPP”), signed on 8th March 2018, including the Protocol on the Accession of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland to the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership, signed on 16th July 2023 by Australia, Brunei Darussalam, Canada, the Republic of Chile, Japan, Malaysia, the United Mexican States, New Zealand, the Republic of Peru, the Republic of Singapore, the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.”;

(b) in the second column insert—

“The CPTPP Preferential Tariff, version 1.0, dated 21st March 2024.”;

(c) in the third column insert—

“The CPTPP Origin Reference Document, version 1.0, dated 21st March 2024.”.

(1)

S.I. 2020/1457. Schedule 1 was substituted by regulation 5 of, and Schedule 1 to, S.I. 2020/1657, and amended by S.I. 2021/241, 382, 527, 693, 871, 1192 and 1489 and 2022/174, 525, 613 and 899 and 2023/194, 195, 433, 774, 1192, 1339 and 1436 and 2024/303.

(2)

The reference documents referred to in regulation 2 of this instrument are available electronically from https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/reference-documents-for-the-customs-tariff-preferential-trade-arrangements-eu-exit-regulations-2020. Hard copies are held and available to view free of charge at the Department for Business and Trade, Old Admiralty Building, London SW1A 2DY. By virtue of section 32A of the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Act 2018 (“the Act”) (as inserted by section 75 of the Finance Act 2022 (c. 3)), where regulations made under any of sections 8 to 19 of the Act make provision by reference to a document, this is a reference to the document as modified from time to time, or as replaced, by notice by the appropriate authority.