§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what is the current level of import levy on the import of food, expressed as an amount per pound where practical, in respect of those foodstuffs covered by the common agricultural policy.
§ Mr. Peter Walker[pursuant to his reply, 8 February 1982, c. 279]: The information requested for the United Kingdom as at 1 February 1982 is as follows:
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Item and CCT number Common levy* Pence/lb MCA† Pence/lb Total import levy Pence/lb Poultry meat 70 per cent. chickens (02.02 AIb)†† 7.01 0.81 7.82 Lamb carcases (02.01 AIVb1)‡‡ 14.49 Nil 14.49
- * Conversion from European currency units into sterling has been made using the representative rate 1 ECU = £0.618655, and multiplying the resultant figure by the current monetary coefficient of 0.920.
- †Currently, monetary compensatory amounts (MCAs) act as a levy on imports.
- ‡There is a special rate for New Zealand butter.
- ** Includes a supplementary levy applicable to imports from certain countries of origin. Regulations provide for supplementary levies to operate in this sector when average free-at-frontier offer prices fall below the sluice gate price.
- †† Does not include a supplementary levy which at present applies only to imports from Spain or Czechoslovakia.
- ‡‡ The levy on imported sheep and sheepmeat is subject to a ceiling of 10 per cent. of cif value under voluntary restraint agreements negotiated with major supplying countries.