§ Mr. Shoreasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs which dependent territories of the United Kingdom are to join the Common Market and which are not; and what, in each case, was their trade with the United Kingdom in 1970 and the size of the populations.
§ Mr. RipponIt has been agreed with the European Economic Community that the United Kingdom Dependent Territories listed in paragraph 118 of the White Paper (Cmnd. 4715) (not including Gibraltar and Hong Kong) and the West Indies Associated States should be included among the countries and territories to which the association arrangements under Part IV of the Treaty of Rome apply. It has further been agreed that, as regards the United Kingdom's Dependent Territories and the West Indies Associated States, these arrangements will not enter into force until 1975.
A schedule of United Kingdom trade with these territories in 1970 and the latest available population figures for each of them are given below:
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§ Mr. Shoreasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will list separately those Commonwealth countries which are seeking association with the Common Market and those which are not; and if he will record their exports to, and imports from, the United Kingdom in 1970 and their populations, in each case.
§ Mr. RipponThe Community's offer of association, or the alternative of a trade agreement, made in the enlargement negotiations, extends to the developing Commonwealth countries listed in paragraph 117 of the White Paper (Cmnd. 4715). Negotiations for the arrangements to succeed the current Yaoundé
UNITED KINGDOM TRADE WITH COMMONWEALTH, 1970 Population Imports Exports Commonwealth Countries (millions) £'000 £000 Australia … … … … … 12.55 260,171 345,829 Barbados … … … … … 0.26 6,809 11,961 Botswana … … … … … 0.65 3,153 426 Canada … … … … … 21.41 682,198 288,194 Ceylon … … … … … 12.51 36,506 18,456 Cyprus … … … … … 0.63 20,434 26,069 Fiji … … … … … 0.52 10,200 6,079 Gambia … … … … … 0.36 4,139 2,106 Ghana … … … … … 9.03 38,795 38,284 Guyana … … … … … 0.76 12,441 14,877 India … … … … … 550.38 (e) 105,270 72,934 Jamaica … … … … … 2.00 27,402 38,142 Kenya … … … … … 11.25 26,990 52,708 Lesotho … … … … … 1.04 1 67 Malawi … … … … … 4.53 12,134 7,938 Malaysia … … … … … 10.80 46,531 60,396 Malta … … … … … 0.33 5,759 25,683 Mauritius … … … … … 0.81 22,344 5,891 New Zealand … … … … … 2.82 203,206 129,026 Nigeria … … … … … 55.07 124,013 114,315 Pakistan … … … … … 129.00(e) 35,222 49,500 Sierra Leone … … … … … 2.53(e) 31,448 12,509 Singapore … … … … … 2.05 33,545 62,480 Swaziland … … … … … 0.41 9,341 357 Tanzania … … … … … 13.49 (e) 23,958 19,540 Trinidad and Tobago … … … … 1.07 19,398 28,116 Tonga (and U.K. Pacific Dependencies) … 0.09 431 1,307 Uganda … … … … … 9.81 17,541 9.908 Western Samoa … … … … … 0.15 90 323 Zambia … … … … … 4.30 101,248 37,777 (e) = estimate. For statistical purposes, trade with Tonga is bracketed with that for a number of dependent island territories in the Pacific.