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

• Citation: S.I. 2024/424
• Sections: 2

Section 1 Citation, commencement and extent

(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership) (Amendment) Regulations 2024.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the date on which 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 (“Accession Protocol”) enters into force for the United Kingdom.

(3) The Secretary of State must publish a notice in the London Gazette, as soon as reasonably practicable, of the date on which the Accession Protocol enters into force for the United Kingdom.

(4) These Regulations extend to England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Section 2 Amendment of the Customs Tariff (Preferential Trade Arrangements) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

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

(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 Africa 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 1.1, dated 30th September 2024.

(c) in the third column insert—

The CPTPP Origin Reference Document, version 1.1, dated 30th September 2024.