§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will estimate the volume and value of trade in fruit between the Philippines and the United Kingdom; and what tariff or other conditions apply to this trade.
§ Mr. Redwood[holding answer 20 July 1989]: The United Kingdom imported 15,300 metric tonnes (£6.6 million) of fruit from the Philippines in 1988. There were no exports.
Full details of specific customs duties are given in the integrated tariff of the United Kingdom, chapters 8 arid 20, a copy of which is available in the Library. Imports of prepared or preserved pineapples comprise some two thirds of fruit imports from the Philippines; these receive a general scheme of preferences concession on the normal full tariff rate.
There are plant health standards that have to be met by certain fresh fruit imports.
§ Mr. SillarsTo ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster what are the principal trading goods and commodities between the United Kingdom and the Philippines.
§ Mr. Redwood[holding answer 20 July 1989]: The principal traded goods have been defined in terms of divisions of the standard international trade classification. The information is given in the following tables:
United Kingdom imports from the Philippines in 1988 Division Value £ million 24 Cork and wood 45.3 77 Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances and electrical parts thereof 40.6 63 Cork and wood manufactures (excluding furniture) 35.9 84 Articles of apparel and clothing accessories 32.9 05 Vegetables and fruit 10.7 89 Miscellaneous manufactured articles nes 7.7 82 Furniture and parts thereof (including bedding) 7.3 03 Fish (not marine mammals, crustaceans, molluscs etc and preparations thereof 5.1 29 Crude animal and vegetable materials nes 4.7 26 Textile fibres and their wastes (not manufactured into yarn or fabric) 4.7