UK trade remedies investigations can affect your access to the UK market, increase costs and disrupt supply chains.
We advise businesses around the world on the full range of UK trade remedies issues. Whether you manufacture goods overseas, export to the UK, import affected products or invest in impacted sectors, we help you assess risk, respond effectively and protect your commercial interests.
Combining trade remedies, customs, tax and disputes experience, we guide you through every stage of the process, from initial risk assessment and Trade Remedies Authority investigations through to implementation, reconsideration, appeals and litigation.
How UK trade remedies could affect your business
The UK may impose trade remedies where investigations identify concerns involving dumped imports, subsidised goods or sudden increases in imports.
These measures can result in additional duties, affect the cost and availability of products and influence decisions about sourcing, pricing and investment.
You may need our support if you:
- Export products to the UK
- Manufacture goods that enter the UK market
- Import goods into the UK
- Supply components or materials used in affected products
- Operate within a sector that frequently attracts trade remedies scrutiny
- Receive an information request from the UK Trade Remedies Authority
- Need to assess how a proposed measure could affect your supply chain
- Consider an acquisition, investment or restructuring involving an affected product or sector
- Face increased duties following a UK trade remedies decision
We provide coordinated support throughout the lifecycle of a UK trade remedies matter, helping you protect market access, manage duty exposure, maintain supply chain resilience and navigate regulatory challenges.
UK trade remedies issues often intersect with customs, tax, disputes, competition law, regulatory requirements and corporate transactions. Wherever your business operates, our integrated team can help you understand how a UK trade investigation may affect your products and operations. We provide coordinated, commercially focused advice to help you respond to investigations, manage duty exposure and protect access to the UK market.
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Our team advises across the full lifecycle of UK trade remedies, customs and duty disputes. Representative experience includes advising:
- manufacturers and exporters in the aerospace and defense sector on export control and sanctions exposure across major international transactions, including trade-related due diligence on M&A where product classification, rules of origin and duty liability affect the target's cost base.
- companies facing UK and European tax authority enquiries in customs duty and anti-dumping duty disputes, alongside SDLT and cross-border VAT matters, running reconsiderations, tribunal appeals and judicial review challenges.
- multiple industry sectors on the operational impact of trade disruption, including new customs formalities, tariff exposure and trading under the WTO framework, advising on practical mitigants and on lobbying strategy with government. We have also guided clients through voluntary disclosures involving export and import control breaches, sanctions infringements and duty suspension mechanisms, each of which has to date closed with no further action taken against the client or any of its directors.