HC Deb 17 January 1972 vol 829 cc40-1W
Mr. Shore

asked 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. Rippon

It 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:

Mr. Shore

asked 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. Rippon

The 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.