§ Mr. Gouldasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapter 40 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly within division 62 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or more of the items in the division will be 375W subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round and the current year to date.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapter 40 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly within division 62 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or more items will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherThe information is as follows:
Value of specified United Kingdom imports 1980 1981 1982 1983* Transmission, conveyor or elevator belts or belting, of vulcanised rubber (Sub-group 628.2) 10.4 9.3 11.0 12.7 * Provisional. Sources: Her Majesty's Customs and Excise Tariff, Chapter 40; and
Value of Specified United Kingomd Imports 1980 1981 1982 (£ million cif) *1983 (i) Chlorine (Item 522.13) 0.6 1.1 0.8 0.9 (ii) Intermixture and interalloys of rare earth metals, yttrium and scandium (2805–4000) 0.2 0 0.1 0.1 (iii) Phosphorous pentoxide and phosphoric acids (Item 522.24) 10.2 10.9 13.8 14.4 (iv) Sulphur dioxide (2813–1500) 0 0.1 0.1 0.1 (v) Ammonia (Item 522.51) n/a n/a n/a n/a (vi) Solid sodium hydroxide (Item 522.52) 0.7 1.5 2.0 1.7 (vii) Sodium hydroxide in aqueous solution (Item 522.53) 4.4 4.9 5.2 8.3 (viii) Solid potassim hydroxide (2817–3100) 0.8 0.9 1.3 1.5 (ix) Potassium hydroxide in aqueous solution (2817–3500) 0 0 0 0.5 (x) Zinc oxide and peroxide (Item 522.41) 1.1 1.2 2.0 1.6 (xi) Chromium oxides and hydroxides (Item 522.42) 2.8 2.6 3.7 1.5 (xii) Lead oxides; red lead and orange lead (Item 522.47) 0.4 0.4 0.4 0.5 (xiii) Antimony oxides (2828–9100) 0.8 1.0 1.3 1.1 (xiv) Unspecified inorganic bases and metallic oxides, hydroxides and peroxides (2828–9900) n/a n/a n/a n/a (xv) Fluorides of ammonium or sodium (2829–2000) 0.4 0.5 0.5 0.7 (xvi) Disodium hexafluorosilicate and dipotassium hexafluorosilicate (2829–5000) 0.3 0.4 0.3 0.4 (xvii) Chlorides of cobalt (2830.5100) 0.8 0.2 0.2 0.3 (xviii) Chlorides of nickel (2830–5500) 0.5 0.1 0.1 0.1 (xix) Dithionites and sulphoxylates (Item 523.16) 0.4 0.5 1.9 0.7 (xx) Aluminium potassium bis (sulphate) (2838–8200) — — — 0 (xxi) Chromium potassium bis (sulphate) (2838–8300) 0 — — 0 (xxii) Alums, other than Aluminium ammonium bis (sulphate) and (xx) and (xxi) above (2838–8900) 0 0 0 0 (xxiii) Phosphates (including polyphosphates) other than of ammonium (Item 523.22 less 2840–1000, -2100 and -2900 13.5 16.4 17.6 19.9 (xxiv) Sodium carbonate (neutral) (Item 523.23) 2.3 5.0 9.8 5.3 (xxv) Carbonates of sodium (other than neutral) (2842–3500) 0.2 0.8 0.9 1.2 (xxvi) Complex cyanides (2843–9100 & 9900) 0.2 0.2 0.1 0.1 (xxvii) Chromates, dichromates and perchromates (2847–3100, -3900, -4100 and -4800) (0.6) (0.7) 2.5 2.8 (xxviii) Calcium carbide (Item 523.939 9.2 n/a n/a n/a * Provisional Source: HM Customs and Excise Tariff, Chapter 28; and UK Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC/R2 Groups 522 and 523.
Notes:
(a) 0 denotes trade less than £50,000;
— denotes nil trade.
(b) n/a indicates that figures are not available owing to commercial privacy.
(c) figures for item (xxvii) chromates etc, in 1980 and 81 exclude sodium dichromate (2847–4100).
(d) no information is yet availabale for the current year.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapters 71 to
376WUnited Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC/R2 sub-group 628.2
Note: No information is yet available for the current year.
§ Mr. Gouldasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapter 28 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly within standard industrial trade classification division 52 and in which one or more of the items in the division will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round and the current year to date.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapter 28 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly in division 52 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or more of the items will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of such imports each year since the start of the Tokyo round.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherThe available information is as follows:
81 which fall wholly or partly within division 68 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or 377W more items will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round.
§ Mr. Gouldasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a list of the four-digit headings in chapters 74 to 81 of the Brussels nomenclature which fall wholly or partly in division 68 of the standard industrial trade classification and in which one or more of the items in that division will be subject to a tariff of 10 per cent. or more on 1 January 1987, together with the value of imports of such items each year since the start of the Tokyo round and the current year to date.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherThe information is as follows:
Value of specified United Kingdom imports (£ million cif) 1980 1981 1982 *1983 (i) Wrought aluminium bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections, and aluminium wire (Item 684.21) 33.3 41.3 57.9 68.0 (ii)Wrought aluminium plates, sheets and strip (Item 684.22) 127.3 128.1 155.6 202.0 (iii) Aluminium foil of a thickness not exceeding 0.20mm (Item 684.23) 44.7 43.7 52.4 63.8 (iv) Aluminium tubes, hollow bars and pipes (and blanks therefor) (Item 684.25) 6.8 7.9 10.2 11.6 Source:
Her Majesty Customs and Excise tariff, Chapters 71–81, and United
European Community Trade* in Food, Beverages and Tobacco† with Rest of World Million ECU's‡ Imports Percentage of total imports Exports Percentage of total exports 1958 7,172 30.2 1,919 8.8 1970 10,888 18.2 4,048 7.4 1983║ 30,612 9.6 22,335 7.7 * Excluding trade among European Community countries. † Standard International Trade Classification Sections 0 and 1. ‡ ECU = European Currency Unit. ║ Twelve months to June. Source: Eurostat.
§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1982 and the latest available date in 1983 the United Kingdom share of imports by the European Economic Community Six of machinery, metal maufactures, transport equipment, textiles, chemicals and other manufactures in SITC division 8.
§ Mr. Alexander FletcherData for these commodities in respect of 1983 are not readily available. The 1982 figures are in the table:
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United Kingdom snare of imports by the European Community Six Per cent. 1982 Machinery* 8.4 Metal manufactures† 5.2 Kingdom Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC/R2 Group 684.
Note:
No information is yet available for the current year.
* provisional