HC Deb 14 November 1988 vol 140 cc410-1W
Mr. Parry

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what has been the level of the import of high tar cigarettes from Eastern Europe in each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement.

Mr. Alan Clark

Available information is limited to total cigarette imports as tar levels are not separately identified in theOverseas Trade Statistics.

United Kingdom imports of cigarettes from Eastern Europe 1983–87
£s
1983 1984 1985 1986 11987
German Democratic Republic 77,973 2,803 — 32 85
USSR 77 — — — 3
Yugoslavia 22 122 8 — —
Hungary 16 10 34 7 4
Bulgaria 5 20 — 66 —
Czechoslovakia — 8 — — —
1 January to December.

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics.

Note: Cigarettes defined as United Kingdom tariff heading 2402 1000. 1987 figures provisional. Figures on country of origin basis. Imports valued cif.