Question follow-through · 50249
Imports: China
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the proportion of imports from China that were worth less than £135 in each year since 2015.
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- Answering body
- Treasury
- Tabled
- 6 May 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 May 2025
- Answer
- 13 May 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 May 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what information her Department holds on the proportion of imports from China that were worth less than £135 in each year since 2015.
8 May 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 May 2025
Answer published
Goods valued at £135 or less imported into the UK are not subject to customs duty and are predominantly imported through a simplified customs declaration. As part of this simplified declaration multiple goods can be bulk declared without providing the tot...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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