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Policy
United Kingdom
2025
Critical Minerals List of the United Kingdom
United Kingdom released its Critical Minerals Strategy in November 2025, revising the 2022 critical minerals list. The complete list of critical minerals, sourced from the Critical Mineral Intelligence Centre’s 2024 Criticality Assessment, is as follows:Aluminium*Antimony Bismuth Borates* Cobalt Gallium Germanium*Hafnium*Helium*Indium Iridium* Iron*Lithium Magnesite* Magnesium Manganese*Natural Graphite*Nickel*Niobium Phosphorus*Platinum Rare Earth Elements (Rees) Rhenium* Rhodium* Ruthenium*Silicon Sodium*Tantalum Tellurium Tin Titanium* Tungsten Vanadium Zinc**2025 additions
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Policy
Canada
2023
United Kingdom - Canada Joint Statement of Intent on Collaboration on Critical Minerals
In a partnership launched by the United Kingdom Minister of Business and Trade and the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, the United Kingdom and Canada have agreed to boost green technology supply chains through co-operation on critical minerals. The Dialogue was launched at the 2023 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention. Under the statement, the two countries pledge to work together towards shared objectives:Spur supply chain innovation and promote collaborative research and development among industry, academia and the governments. This cooperation will include upstream, midstream and reuse/recycling.Promote secure and integrated supply chains between the…
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Policy
United Kingdom
2023
United Kingdom - Canada Joint Statement of Intent on Collaboration on Critical Minerals
In a partnership launched by the United Kingdom Minister of Business and Trade and the Canadian Minister of Natural Resources, the United Kingdom and Canada have agreed to boost green technology supply chains through co-operation on critical minerals. The Dialogue was launched at the 2023 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) Convention. Under the statement, the two countries pledge to work together towards shared objectives:Spur supply chain innovation and promote collaborative research and development among industry, academia and the governments. This cooperation will include upstream, midstream and reuse/recycling.Promote secure and integrated supply chains between the…
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Policy
United Kingdom
2017
United Kingdom's coal phase-out strategy
In 2017, the United Kingdom committed to phasing-out coal in the power sector by 2025. Since 2021, the United Kingdom government has brought forward its target to 1 October 2024, in line with its net zero climate strategy.
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Policy
Mexico
2021
United Kingdom - Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement (TCA)
The United Kingdom - Mexico Trade Continuity Agreement aims to foster economic and trade relations between the two countries by eliminating tariffs and other trade barriers.The agreement eliminates and reduces tariff from originating goods including, but not limited to: Electric generation equipment Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances and other advanced machinery Electric motors, transformers, batteries and capacitors Motor vehicles Mineral ore and processed products including manganese, copper, aluminium, and nickel Various products manufactured using the above minerals and metals, such as sheets, powders, bars and plates Photovoltaic cells The Agreement also includes rules of origin and local content provisions. Goods are counted as originating if they are…
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Policy
Israel
2021
United Kingdom-Israel Trade and Partnership Agreement
The Israel-United Kingdom Free Trade Agreement (FTA) entered into force in 2021. The Agreement provides for the elimination of import tariffs for most products traded between the two countries, notably :Base metals and articlesMachineryTransport EquipmentRules of Origin determining if a product qualifies for preferential tariff treatment state that non-originating materials should not exceed 10% of the total ex-works price of a manufactured product.
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Policy
United Kingdom
2021
United Kingdom - Central America Association Trade Agreement
The Free Trade Agreement between the United Kingdom (UK) and Central America (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama) entered into force in 2013. It notably provides for the elimination of border tariffs for the following energy sector related products: Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals, including polysilicon;Primary cells and primary batteries;Heat pumps;The Agreement also includes rules of origin. In order to benefit from preferential tariff treatment, goods :must be wholly obtained, eg. produced entirely within the territory of one of the Parties, without incorporating materials originating elsewhere, orhave undergone sufficient working or processing within…
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Policy
United Kingdom
2021
United Kingdom - Andean countries Free Trade Agreement
The Free Trade Agreement between United Kingdom and the Andean countries entered into force on January 2021, fully or partially eliminating import tariff for most energy products and technologies, including: Electric motors, turbines and generators; Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; Motor vehicles; Mineral ore, slag and ash; Mineral fuels, oils and other products; Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; Rules of origin delineated in the agreement state goods may benefit from preferential tariff treatment if:they are wholly produced or obtained in one…
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Policy
United Kingdom
2022
United Kingdom – Singapore Free Trade Agreement (UKSFTA)
The United Kingdom – Singapore Free Trade Agreement provides for the elimination or reduction of tariff barriers across major sectors, including for: Electric motors, turbines and generators; Mechanical equipment including pumps, appliances, and other advanced machinery; Electric accumulators, transformers, capacitors, batteries; Motor vehicles; Mineral ore, slag and ash; Mineral fuels, oils and other products; Metals and their articles e.g. iron and steel; Semiconductors devices and photovoltaic cells; Rule of origins apply to qualify for the preferential tariff treatment. Conditions to confer originating status include but not limited to the following: For ores, slags and ash, it considers production from materials…