The Trade Remedies Authority

Anyone can apply for a new trade remedy investigation and you can view already active cases and reviews on the Trade Remedies Service online platform, the first fully digital trade remedies system. 

The TRA’s SME hub provides a comprehensive introduction to the UK trade remedies system and practical advice on how to work with them.

View the TRA’s SME Handbook. 

View some of the TRA’s factsheets for small businesses which answer some frequently asked questions about the UK trade remedies regime.

This factsheet showcases the types of reviews that the TRA can do: Types of review - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

Find out how the TRA investigates whether trade remedy measures are needed: The UK trade remedies investigations process

If you are not sure whether you can benefit from applying to the TRA for any type of review, the TRA’s Pre-application office offers a free, confidential and non-obligatory conversation to answer your queries. 

The Economic Interest Test (EIT) is a key component of the UK’s trade remedy framework. It considers the impact of a trade measure on a range of stakeholders, including UK producers as well as upstream and downstream industries, UK importers and consumers. The EIT also considers other factors that might impact demand and supply, such as the Covid-19 pandemic and the UK’s exit from the European Union. 

With the EIT, the TRA can establish if a trade measure could have negative consequences for the UK economy that is disproportionate to the need to have that measure in place for the specific UK industry.  

Find out more about the EIT and how you can contribute to it.  

Read the TRA blog for some real-life examples of past cases and how the EIT measured trade injustices, their remedies and the impact of these on consumers.