UK Parliament home

This petition was submitted during the 2019 to 2024 Parliament

View other petitions from this Parliament

Closed The Government needs to give additional support to UK importers & retailers.

Closed on

The Government needs to provide short term reductions and/or holidays on Import Duty being levied on imported products and a reduction in VAT. The Pandemic has created a fractured market and freight rates are now prohibitive (particularly for SMEs), which may lead to widespread business failures.

Importers & Retailers have already endured a tough 18 months throughout the Pandemic. The high street has been decimated, and jobs have been lost. If the Government do not take action over the short term, the implications will be detrimental to the retail sector and the UK economy more broadly:

1. UK Wholesalers and Retailers may go out of business
2. Job losses
2. Risk of dramatic inflationary impact hitting the UK consumer, at a time when economy is recovering.

Please help.#doRightbyRetail

20 signatures

Show on a map

10,000

Petition progress

View all updates for this petition, with the most recent first.

  • Petition closed

  • Petition published

    This petition can now be signed.

    If this petition gets 10,000 signatures, government will respond to it.

    If this petition gets 100,000 signatures, it will be considered for debate in Parliament.

    This petition will stay open until 23 January 2022.