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  Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Bill - Decline Second Reading
  
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  @ MP voted no to authorise the charging of import and export duties, and to make arrangements in connection with such duties, and VAT, relating to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
  @ MP voted aye against authorising the charging of import and export duties, and against making arrangements in connection with such duties, and VAT, relating to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
  
  The majority of MPs voted to authorise the charging of import and export duties, and to make arrangements in connection with such duties, and VAT, relating to the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union.
  
  MPs were considering the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Bill.[1]
  
  The motion under debate was:
  
  :That the Bill be now read a Second time.
  
  The amendment which was rejected in this vote was: 
  
  :to leave out from âThatâ to the end of the Question and add:
  
  :âThat this House
  :''recognises'' that the UK will need considered and effective arrangements to ensure a customs and tariff regime, including the potential of a customs union with the European Union, is in place before the UKâs exit, in order to guarantee frictionless movement of goods at UK ports and the ability to levy customs duty and VAT and to protect manufacturing and other key industries through the power to enact protective tariffs, but 
  :''declines'' to give a Second Reading to the Taxation (Cross-border Trade) Bill because the Government has failed to provide a coherent plan for the operation of the customs and tariff regime after the UKâs exit from the European Union or for the maintenance of frictionless movement of goods at UK ports, because the Bill is not accompanied by proposals to ensure that Her Majestyâs Revenue and Customs are properly resourced and organised to implement a new customs and VAT regime, because the needs of UK manufacturers and producers have not been properly reflected in the design of the proposals and because the Bill proposes to give excessive powers to Ministers without appropriate procedures for parliamentary consultation and scrutiny.â
  
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  * [1] [https://services.parliament.uk/bills/2017-19/taxationcrossbordertrade.html Parliament's webpage on the Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Bill]
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