§ Mr. Wareingasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the commodities and services entering into the import-export trade between the United Kingdom and Cuba during the past 10 years, giving the values in each case.
§ Mr. ChannonData for trade in services with Cuba is not readily available. The available information on commodities is as follows:
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1974 1975 1976 1977* 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983† Other 0.5 0.4 0.8 2.0 0.5 2.6 0.3 0.3 0.6 0.7 United Kingdom Exports (fob): Total‡ 24.0 37.0 42.8 27.5 27.6 36.1 35.3 27.7 64.5 45.7 of which: Miscellaneous chemicals (59) 1.6 2.8 4.8 2.5 4.0 7.0 4.7 4.6 3.3 6.6 Dairy products (02) 1.9 — •0 — 1.8 1.2 4.8 — 2.8 6.0 General industrial machinery (74)■ 3.9 2.4 4.1 3.5 3.5 3.5 5.6 Power generating machinery (71)■ 2.2 1.6 1.7 1.5 1.4 2.1 3.4 Machinery other than electric (71)* 6.6 12.5 14.1 Transport equipment other than road vehicles (79)* 1.6 0.2 0.1 0.2 4.4 0.1 3.1 Transport equipment (73) * 2.2 5.2 9.7 Other 11.7 16.5 14.2 17.3 17.6 21.9 20.7 13.8 #52.6 21.0 Source: United Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics and its earlier equivalent (incorporating unpublished adjustments).
* Due to changes between SITC Revisions 1 and 2 the statistical coverage prior to 1977 differs in certain cases from that for 1977 onwards.
† Provisional.
‡Due to rounding totals shown may not correspond exactly to the sum of constituent items.
║ Figures in parenthesis after commodity descriptions refer to SITC (Revisions 1 and 2) Divisions.
¶ Indicates nil trade.
• 0 indicates trade of less than £50,000.
■ Division relates to SITC/Revision 2 only.
*Division relates to SITC/Revision 1 only.
# Includes exports valued at £40m of cereals and cereal preparations (04).