Meat Imports (South America)

HC Deb 30 April 1990 vol 171 c458W

Mr. Shore

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what, in constant prices, was the level of imports of Argentinian and Uruguayan meat and meat products in 1972, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988 and 1989.

Mr. Maclean

Since constant price data are not readily available at this level of disaggregation, the table shows the value and volume of imports of meat and meat preparations from Argentina and Uruguay in the specified years:

	Argentina	Uruguay
	Value	Volume	Value	Volume
	£ million	'000s tonnes	£ million	'000s tonnes
1972	56.3	93.0	—	—
1982	23.0	16.0	6.4	4.1
1985	0.3	0.3	18.9	13.3
1986	3.9	2.3	24.7	17.0
1987	29.5	17.9	15.9	9.5
1988	23.8	20.3	13.4	9.2
11989	47.9	25.6	24.3	13.2
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