Video Games (Imports)

HC Deb 05 February 1982 vol 17 c238W

Mrs. Renée Short

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the value at the latest available date of the import of video games from Japan.

Mr. Peter Rees

[pursuant to his reply, 4 February 1982]: Video games are identified in the Overseas Trade Statistics only to a limited extent. The available information for imports consigned from Japan in the three months ending November 1981 is as follows:

£Thousand Cif
Domestic television games	4
Equipment for parlour, table and funfair games not elsewhere specified	6,434

Note: Figures correspond to headings 9704–9840 and 9704–9899 under SITC/R2 Item 894.24 of the UK Overseas Trade Statistics.