HC Deb 15 February 1980 vol 978 cc863-4W
Mr. Hooley

asked the Secretary of State for Trade which of the following metals or metal ores were imported from the Soviet Union in 1978 and 1979 and in approximately what quantities: titanium, zinc, nickel, manganese, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium, platinum, antimony, copper, cobalt and uranium.

Mr. Parkinson

[pursuant to his reply, 7 February 1980, c. 299]: gave the following available information:

I METAL, UNWROUGHT OR WROUGHT (AND ARTICLES THEREOF)
Tonnes
1978 1979
Titanium 118 *
Nickel 443 346
Platinum 0.05
Copper 100 28
II. ORES AND CONCENTRATES
Tonnes
1978 1979
Titanium 175
III. FERRO-ALLOYS
Tonnes
1978 1979
Titanium 261 18
Chromium 3,318† 1,260†
Manganese 517
IV. OXIDES, HYDROXIDES, ASHES AND RESIDUES, ETC. (INCLUDING COMPOUNDS OF NATURAL AND ENRICHED URANIUM)
Tonnes
1978 1979
Chromium 192 500
Uranium 36
* Details by individual country are currently not available for publication.
† Partial coverage only (details of ferro-silico chromium are not available for publication).
Details of natural uranium; unwrought chromium (other than chromium alloys containing more than 10 per cent. by weight of nickel) in 1979 only; and the ores and concentrates of platinum (including other platinum group metals and of silver), antimony and uranium (with a uranium content of more than 5 per cent. by weight) are not available for publication. These excepted, there were no other identifiable imports of these metals in the forms named from the Soviet Union in 1978 or 1979.

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