§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Trade how many metric tonnes of raw cane sugar were imported into (a) the United Kingdom and (b) the EEC as a whole from (i) the West Indies and (ii) Mauritius in each year since 1970 up to the latest for which figures are available.
§ Mr. Parkinson[pursuant to the reply, 29 January 1981 c. 484]: The available information, together with separate figures for imports from Cuba, is as follows:
United Kingdom and European Community* Imports of Raw Sugar† Thousand metric tonnes Imports Into: U.K. E.C. U.K. E.C. U.K. E.C. From: West Indies‡ Mauritius Cuba 1970 735 862 412 412 32 33 1971 732 907 318 318 36 40 1972 775 910 422 422 41 51 1973 769 935 384 384 128 128 1974 489 626 419 419 68 68 1975 454 627 414 414 11 43 1976 615 805 497 497 128 163 1977 469 598 477 477 — 11 1978 473 576 461 462 — — 1979 397 493 397 438 — 27 1980 350 n.a. 546 n.a. 12 n.a. Notes:
* Including Greece
† SITC 061.1—solid, raw, beet and cane sugars. Cane sugar is not separately distinguished in the available statistics.
‡ Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Dominican Republic, French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Guyana, Jamaica, Martinique, Surinam, Trinidad and Tobago, Other British Territories.
— nil or less than 500 metric tonnes.
n.a. not available.
217WSources:
OECD Statistics of Foreign Trade.
Overseas Trade Statistics (for United Kingdom 1980)