World Trade Organisation Rules

Part of 1. Questions to the Cabinet Secretary for Finance – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 14 November 2018.

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Photo of David Rees David Rees Labour 2:20, 14 November 2018

Thank you for that answer, Cabinet Secretary. On Monday the External Affairs and Additional Legislation Committee had a briefing session on the World Trade Organization and the rules and, clearly, the complexities that exist within those rules shoot down the arguments many had in the referendum of how easy it was to simply transfer over if we needed to. I understand the UK Government actually put a schedule forward to the WTO for consideration in July, which many countries have come back with deep concerns about. They've also put forward a schedule in October relating to the tariff rate quotas, which, again, they had assumed would be easily shared. Again, many countries have come back, and when you consider that New Zealand has a tariff rate quota with the EU on lamb, it is a big, important issue. Has the UK Government had discussions with the Welsh Government on these schedules to ensure that our interests and our exports are considered as they are putting them forward?