Following the recent recommendation from The Secretary of State to apply a 15% cap to the residual quota of category 4 and a 20% cap in the residual quotas of categories 7 and 13 (Public Notice 2025/12), two issues have been identified for resolution:
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Online Trade Tariff (OTT) display: The opening balance for the capped individual country quota accounts is incorrectly showing the opening balance for the associated residual quota account. We are working with DBT to fix this. In the meantime, please refer to the Public Notice for the correct opening balances. Once allocations have been made to a quota account, the ‘Balance’ on OTT will show the correct remaining amount.
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A calculation issue has been identified within our quota system that affects all capped individual country quota accounts with an associated residual account. The issue occurs when the individual country account is near exhaustion and partial allocations are required. Due to this issue, two accounts have been suspended pending further investigation:
a. 058410
b. 058411
The other capped individual country quota accounts have a healthy remaining balance, and claims can continue to be made against them.
Related changes:
While this issue relates primarily to steel safeguards, there are other agricultural quotas where an association is made for a specific type of ‘parent/ child’ quota. Currently, all identified accounts have a healthy balance so claims can continue to be made against them. The balances are being monitored closely by HMRC and we will notify you if this changes before the issue has been resolved.
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