division_name: Taxation (Cross-Border Trade) Bill
motion: <p class="indent" pid="c61.3/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it is the government&#8217;s intention that the UK&#8217;s Customs regime will continue to operate in much the same way as it does today following exit from the EU.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c66.1/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;That 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 UK&#8217;s 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 UK&#8217;s 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 Majesty&#8217;s 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.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c73.2/4" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Bill will, we understand, have the powers to amend primary legislation using secondary legislation; raising similar concerns around delegated powers as with the EU (Withdrawal) Bill.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c73.2/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;key aspects of the UK&#8217;s trade legislation will evade proper parliamentary scrutiny&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c74.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We recognise the necessity for this Bill&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c74.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;These proposals are much weaker than we have in the EU (and also weaker than those of most other Trading Nations). Weaker remedies cost jobs.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c74.3/3" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It would be catastrophic if HMRC&#8217;s new customs system, the Customs Declaration System (CDS), is not ready in time and if there is no viable fall-back option.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c75.1/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;a car will be originating in the EU if no more than 45% of the value of the inputs have been imported from outside Korea or the EU to manufacture it.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c77.4/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;it won&#8217;t be possible to grandfather the measures, otherwise you will face problems with the World Trade Organization.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c77.4/12" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;In case Brexit gets reversed by political decision&#8230;the positive impact on growth would be significant.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c97.2/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;The Taxation&#8230;Bill does not presuppose any particular outcome from the UK&#8217;s negotiations with the EU.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c111.1/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;set up a lighter-touch approach to illegal dumping by China and others than in the remaining EU and any other major economy.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c115.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;to support the free, fair and efficient functioning of the market.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c115.0/8" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Without a robust approach to trade remedies the UK government will be unable to achieve its international trade or industrial strategy ambitions. The UK&#8217;s manufacturing base and tens of thousands of jobs around the country&#8230;will be at risk if parliament gets the bill wrong.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c120.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;the processing of the&#8230;imported goods&#8230;results in the production or manufacture of other goods in which the imported goods can be identified&#8221;.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c122.0/6" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;If the past is anything to go by, it will probably be the back end of 2018 before some people wake up to what is going to happen. If we are about to drop off a cliff in April 2019, they will be completely ill-prepared for that and it will almost certainly result in business failures.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/2" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;Uncertainty has been a condition that the business community and wider economy has had to deal with since the EU referendum. We need a positive and consultative approach to Brexit that causes minimum disruption to our businesses across the region throughout these negotiations and further.</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/3" pwmotiontext="yes">This is particularly important for our invaluable international traders who are having to deal with fluctuations in sterling and potential changes to the way they may have to trade in the future.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/5" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A new trading relationship with the EU that gives our exporters frictionless and un-bureaucratic access to European markets&#8221;,</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/7" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;A positive and consultative approach to Brexit that causes minimum disruption to business interests, particularly for those who trade overseas.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/11" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;This will be a huge concern to all importers, but in particular to those who won&#8217;t yet know the consequences because they only currently import from the EU. The issue of managing cashflow will become a major problem because businesses will have to pay out VAT, and then claim it back through their VAT return three or six months down the line.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/15" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;We all saw the evidence session where HMRC&#8217;s CEO was up before the Public Accounts Committee, and indeed he has been in front of this Committee as well. The clear message there is that HMRC has the largest change-management project currently in Europe in terms of its regionalisation of its computer systems, and their CEO was clearly worried that adding Brexit on top of that is potentially going to push HMRC over the edge. That was the clear message.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/17" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;It is quite clear that the CEO of HMRC is worried about Brexit, if you like, being the straw that broke the camel&#8217;s back. If the CEO of HMRC is worried, it is fair to say that it clearly worries us as well...We need to have an honest and realistic assessment of the capabilities of HMRC in this climate, and what is going to be needed in terms of Brexit, and an honest assessment of whether they can do it all.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="indent" pid="c125.0/20" pwmotiontext="yes">&#8220;As part of its proud history of leading the way on international development, the UK has long championed the hugely important role that trade can play in improving living standards around the world. So, just as nobody wants to see Brexit weaken the countless EU-derived protections we all benefit from in the UK&#8212;whether employment rights, environmental legislation or consumer standards&#8212;nor must it result in making life even harder for some of the poorest producers in the world.&#8221;</p>
  
  <p class="italic" pid="c131.0/12" pwmotiontext="yes">The House divided:</p>
  
  <p pid="c131.0/13" pwmotiontext="yes">Ayes 265, Noes 309.</p>