§ Mr. Spearingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the ad valorem incidence of the full duties and charges levied by the EEC on imports of each class of agricultural product calculated on the landed cost of United Kingdom imports from non-EEC countries in November 1976.
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§ Mr. Bishop,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 24th January 1977; Vol. 924, c. 445], gave the following information:
It would be misleading and inappropriate to express the overall incidence of duties and levies in ad valorem terms since there is a wide variety of rates, many of them related to weight or
S.I.T.C. Heading Value of Imports £m. Value of duties and levies £m. Division: 01—Meat and Meat Preparations … … … … 23.2 2.8 02—Dairy Products and Eggs … … … … 14.8 1.9 03—Fish and Fish Preparations … … … … 22.5 1.7 04—Cereals and Cereals Preparations … … … … 71.9 1.6 05—Fruit and Vegetables … … … … 64.0 4.8 06—Sugar, Sugar Preparations and Honey … … … … 7.1 0.2 07—Coffee, Tea, Cocoa and Spices … … … … 49.8 0.5 09—Miscellaneous Food Preparations … … … … 3.6 0.2 22—Oilseeds and Oil Nuts … … … … 30.1 negligible 41—Animal Oils and Fats … … … … 7.4 negligible 42—Fixed Vegetable Oils and Fats … … … … 11.1 0.5