Paragraph 8 TRA’s duty to recommend provisional measuresF1

in sub-paragraph (3), after paragraph (a) there were inserted—

“(aa)

that any reduction in the rate of import duty applicable to all the relevant goods or to specified relevant goods as a result of the relevant free trade agreement should be suspended for a specified period (referred to in this Schedule as a “provisional suspension of tariff rate reduction”);”

for sub-paragraph (9) there were substituted—

“(9)

If the TRA determines that there is no recommendation which it could make under sub-paragraph (3)—

(a)

the TRA must notify the Secretary of State of its provisional affirmative determination in relation to the goods, and

(b)

the Secretary of State must notify interested parties (see paragraph 31(3)) that the Secretary of State will not apply a provisional bilateral safeguarding amount, a provisional suspension of tariff rate reduction or a provisional tariff rate quota to the goods.”

references in Schedule 5 to paragraphs (a) and (b) of sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 11 of that Schedule are to be read as references to paragraphs (a), (aa) and (b) of that sub-paragraph;

references in Schedule 5 to paragraph (a) of that sub-paragraph are to be read as references to paragraph (a) or (aa) of that sub-paragraph (and accordingly references to paragraph (a) or (b) of that sub-paragraph are to be read as references to paragraph (a), (aa) or (b) of that sub-paragraph).