Bill
Customs Amendment (Safeguard Inquiries) Bill 2026
passed, as at 2026-09-28. Industry, Science and Resources portfolio.
- Sponsor
- Not recorded
- Portfolio
- Industry, Science and Resources
Recorded stages
- introduced — 2026-06-24
- second reading — 2026-06-24
- second reading — 2026-09-14
- second reading — 2026-09-14
- third reading — 2026-09-14
- introduced — 2026-09-15
- second reading — 2026-09-15
- second reading — 2026-09-17
- second reading — 2026-09-17
- third reading — 2026-09-17
- passed — 2026-09-17
- royal assent — 2026-09-28
Divisions
No divisions recorded. Most questions are decided on the voices; this does not establish that a bill was unopposed.
Plain-language summary
Written by a model from the explanatory memorandum; not the record, as at 2026-06-24.
This bill shifts the job of running safeguard inquiries from the Productivity Commission to a body that will be called the Australian Trade Remedies Commission.
The renamed commission, led by its Commissioner, would take on the inquiry role when the Minister sends a matter to it, and would report back in writing to the Minister, with that report going to Parliament.
The inquiry process would largely copy the Productivity Commission's current rules, but with updates, and the existing Commission would finish any inquiry it has already started under the old law.
- The bill renames the Anti-Dumping Commission as the Australian Trade Remedies Commission and its head as the Commissioner.
- The bill gives the Commissioner the job of conducting safeguard inquiries referred by the Minister.
- The bill sets rules for hearings, timelines, reporting, and recommendations in safeguard inquiries.
- The bill lets the Minister make regulations about how safeguard inquiries are run.
- The bill updates references in the Customs Act 1901 and the Customs Tariff (Anti-Dumping) Act 1975 to match the new name.
Australian industry, manufacturers, consumers, and the Productivity Commission are the groups mentioned as affected.
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