UK Free Trade Agreements with Australia and New Zealand will come into force 31st May 2023

26 May 2023

On 31 May 2023, the UK Free Trade Agreements with Australia and New Zealand will come into force.

Links to agreements can be found here:

• Full details of the UK / New Zealand trade agreement
• Full details of the UK / Australia trade agreement

CHIEF and CDS have been updated. A brief précis is included in this notice.

A brief précis of the UK / Australia trade agreement

• Immediate 0% import duties for chapters: 1, 5 - 6, 9, 13 - 14, 18, 24 - 27, 30 - 34, 36 - 37, 39 - 75, 78 - 97.
• Staged annual reductions apply within chapters: 2 - 4, 7 - 8, 10 - 12, 15 - 17, 19 - 23, 28 - 29, 35, 38, 76.
• Preferential quotas on imports of barley, beef, butter, cheese and curd, other dairy (milk, cream, yoghurt and whey), broken rice, milled rice, sheepmeat, sugar and wheat.

A brief précis of the UK / NZ trade agreement

• • Immediate 0% import duties for chapters: 1, 5 - 6, 9, 13 - 14, 24 - 27, 29 - 34, 36 - 80, 82 - 97.
  • Staged annual reductions apply within these chapters: 2 - 4, 7 - 8, 10 - 12, 15 - 23, 28, 35, 81.
  • Preferential quotas on imports of apples, beef, butter, cheese and curd, sheepmeat.

Order number: 059726

Description: Apples

Period: 1.8 -31.12

Duty: 0%

Type: FCFS

Ends: 2025

Volume 2023: 20,000

Volume 2024: 20,000

Volume 2025: 20,000

Volume 2026: Ends