Question follow-through · 76723
Trade Barriers: China
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what trade barriers his Department has identified in the Chinese market in (a) healthcare, (b) automotive and (c) professional services sectors.
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- Answering body
- Department for Business and Trade
- Tabled
- 11 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
11 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, what trade barriers his Department has identified in the Chinese market in (a) healthcare, (b) automotive and (c) professional services sectors.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
We have identified the following challenges: in healthcare, complex regulatory approval processes for medicines and medical devices; in automotive, certification requirements, consumption taxes and tariffs; and in professional services firms face restrict...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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