§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a table showing the current level of import levies on food, including monetary compensatory amounts; and if he will express these sums in pounds sterling per ton for common wheat, barley and maize, and in pence per pound for butter, cheddar cheese, skimmed milk powder, white sugar, boneless frozen beef, lard, pigmeat carcases, salted bacon sides, poultry meat and lamb carcases, and in pence per dozen for standard size eggs.
§ Mr. MacGregorThe following is the information requested for the United Kingdom as at 26 October 1983:
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Item & CCT No. Common Levy* MCA† Total Import Levy £/MT P/LB £/MT P/LB £/MT P/LB Lamb Carcases N/A■ N/A* — N/A=not applicable Footnotes * Conversion from European Currency Units into sterling has been made using the representative rate 1 ECU=£0.618655, and multiplying the resultant figure by the current Monetary Coefficient of 0.935. † Currently, Monetary Compensatory Amounts (MCAs) act as a levy on imports. ‡ There is a special rate for New Zealand butter. ║ Imports are also subject to an ad valorem tariff of 20 per cent. Most imports from outside the Community are subject to special arrangements involving reduced levy and duty rates. ¶ Pence per dozen. ● An additional levy is applied to imports from Yugoslavia and Hungary. ■ The levy on imported sheep and sheepmeat is subject to a ceiling of 10 per cent. of the cif value under Voluntary Restraint Agreements negotiated with major supplying countries. * MCAs are not applied in the sheepmeat sector.