Committee on Trade and Development - Dedicated Session on Preferential Trade Arrangements - Factual presentation - United Kingdom - Generalized system of preferences, 2021 - 2023 - Report by the Secretariat


FACTUAL PRESENTATION

UNITED KINGDOM - GENERALIZED SYSTEM OF PREFERENCES, 2021-2023[1]

REPORT BY THE SECRETARIAT


This report, prepared for the consideration of the United Kingdom's Generalized System of Preferences scheme, has been drawn up by the WTO Secretariat on its own responsibility and in full consultation with the notifying Member. The factual presentation reproduces as closely as possible the terminology used in the preferential trade arrangement and in the comments provided and does not imply official endorsement or acceptance by the Secretariat of such terminology. The report has been drawn up in accordance with the rules and procedures contained in the Decision for a Transparency Mechanism for Preferential Trade Arrangements (_WT/L/806) and thus does not imply any value judgement by the Secretariat regarding the contents of the preferential trade arrangement.

 

Any questions arising from this report may be addressed to Christian Steidl (Christian.Steidl@wto.org)

 



[1] The United Kingdom's Generalized System of Preferences scheme entered into force on 1 January 2021 and was revoked on 18 June 2023. It was replaced on 19 June 2023 by the Developing Countries Trading Scheme (DCTS). Information on the DCTS can be accessed from the WTO's Database on PTAs (http://ptadb.wto.org) and can also be found on the UK Government website (https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/trading-with-developing-nations).