§ Mr. Nicholas BennettTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the main features of the preferential trading arrangements available to Third-world countries wishing to export to Britain, together with a list of those countries to which such arrangements apply.
§ Mr. Alan Clark[holding answer 28 July 1988]: As a member of the European Community, the United Kingdom is party to the following preferential trading arrangements.
The Lome convention grants preferential treatment to products imported into the Community from the 66 African, Caribbean and Pacific states in Table 1. All ACP industrial products, except textiles and rum, and the great majority of agricultural products, are granted duty-free access and the remainder benefit from either a reduced rate of duty or exemption from duty for a limited quantity of imports. There is a parallel arrangement between the EC and the dependencies of member states in table 2.
The EC generalised scheme of preferences grants preferential treatment to products imported into the Community from the countries in table 3. All industrial products are granted duty-free access, and agricultural products access at reduced rates of duty, subject to quantitative limits in the case of certain products sensitive to Community interests.
In addition, the Community has preferential trade agreements with the countries listed in table 4. Under these agreements the Community also gives duty-free access to industrial products, and access at reduced rates of duty to agricultural products, subject to limits in the case of certain sensitive products.
Table 1. List of ACP signatories to the third Lomé Convention Angola Malawi Antigua and Barbuda Mali Bahamas Mauritania Barbados Mauritius Belize Mozambique Benin Niger Botswana Nigeria Burkina Faso Uganda Burundi Papua New Guinea Cameroun Rwanda Cape Verde St. Christopher and Nevis Central African Republic St. Lucia Chad St. Vincent and the Comoros Grenadines Congo São Tomée and Principe Djibouti Senegal Dominica Seychelles Equatorial Guinea Sierra Leone Ethiopia Solomon Islands Fiji Somalia Gabon Sudan Gambia Surinam Ghana Swaziland Grenada Tanzania Guinea Togo Guinea-Bissau Tonga Guyana Trinidad and Tobago Ivory Coast Tuvalu Jamaica Vanuatu Kenya Western Samoa Kiribati Zaire Lesotho Zambia Liberia Zimbabwe Madagascar Table 2
List of overseas countries and territories
- Anguilla
652 - Aruba
- British Antarctic Territories
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands
- Cayman Islands
- Falkland Islands
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Territories
- Greenland
- Mayotte
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia and Dependencies
- Pitcairn
- St. Helena and Dependencies
- St. Pierre and Miquelon
- South Sandwich Islands and Dependencies
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Wallis and Futuna Islands
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Table 3 List of developing countries and territories enjoying generalised tariff preferences Afghanistan Kenya Algeria Kiribati Angola Korea Antigua and Barbuda Kuwait Argentina Laos Bahamas Lebanon Bahrain Lesotho Bangladesh Liberia Barbados Libya Belize Madagascar Benin Malawi Bhutan Malaysia Bolivia Maldives Botswana Mali Brazil Mauritania Brunei Darussalam Mauritius Burkina Faso Mexico Burma Morocco Burundi Mozambique Cambodia Nauru Cameroon Nepal Cape Verde Nicaragua Central African Republic Niger Chad Nigeria Chile North Yemen China Oman Colombia Pakistan Comoros Panama Congo Papua New Guinea Costa Rica Paraguay Cuba Peru Cyprus Philippines Djibouti Qatar Dominica Romania Dominican Republic Rwanda Ecuador Samoa Egypt Sao Tome and Principe El Salvador Saudi Arabia Equatorial Guinea Senegal Ethiopa Seychelles and dependencies Fiji Sierra Leone Gabon Singapore Gambia Solomon Islands Ghana Somalia Grenada South Yemen Guatemala Sri Lanka Guinea St. Christopher and Nevis Guinea Bissau St. Lucia Guyana St. Vincent Haiti Sudan Honduras Surinam India Swaziland Indonesia Syria Iran Tanzania Iraq Thailand Ivory Coast Togo Jamaica Tonga Jordon Trinidad and Tobago
Tunisia Vietnam Tuvalu Western Samoa Uganda Yugoslavia United Arab Emirates Zaire Uruguay Zambia Vanuatu Zimbabwe Venezuela
- American Oceania
- Anguilla
- Aruba
- Australian Antarctic Territories
- Australian Oceania (Christmas Island, Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Heard Island and McDonald Islands, Norfolk Island)
- Bermuda
- British Antarctic Territories
- British Indian Ocean Territory
- British Virgin Islands and Montserrat
- Cayman Islands
- Falkland Islands and Falkland dependencies
- French Polynesia
- French Southern and Antarctic Territories
- Gibraltar
- Greenland
- Hong Kong
- Macao
- Mayotte
- Netherlands Antilles
- New Caledonia and dependencies
- New Zealand Oceania (Tokelau and Niue Islands; Cook Islands)
- Pitcairn
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- St. Helena
- St. Helena dependencies
- St. Pierre and Miquelon
- Turks and Caicos Islands
- Virgin Islands of the United States
- Wallis and Futuna Islands
Table 4 List of Mediterranean countries enjoying preferential trading arrangements with the EC Algeria Malta Cyprus Morocco Egypt Syria Israel Tunisia Jordan Turkey Lebanon Yugoslavia