Written questions

Motor Vehicles: USA

Commons · Question 99170 · Tabled 11 Dec 2025 · Department for Business and Trade · Official record

Answered 16 Dec 2025

Question

Asked by Dame Harriett Baldwin

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what specific steps his Department is taking to tackle non-tariff barriers currently facing SMEs in the automotive sector that export to the United States.

Answer

Answered by Chris Bryant, 16 Dec 2025

We are committed to supporting UK businesses to trade internationally. In May, under the General Terms of the Economic Prosperity Deal, the UK secured a 10% tariff for automotives within quota, the first and only country to do so - saving hundreds of mill...