HC Deb 27 January 1993 vol 217 cc730-1W
1990. Mr. Cousins

To ask the President of the Board of Trade, pursuant to his answer of 11 January to the hon. Member for Amber Valley (Mr. Oppenheim) at column 555, if he will supply the corresponding information about the export of machine tools to Iraq in(a) 1985, (b) 1986 and (c)

Mr. Needham

[holding answer 18 January 1993]: For ease of reference the information requested for the major countries supplying machine tools to Iraq from 1985 to 1990 is set out as follows:

USA Japan France Germany Italy Switzerland United Kingdom
1988
728.1 168 504 111 832 1,287 550 529
731 N/A 77 239 59,372 10,920 21,772 53,951
733 N/A 1,627 5,922 34,316 7,306 594 2,160
735 N/A 263 4,711 21,166 2,754 20,497 6,436
TOTAL 168 2,471 10,983 115,686 22,267 43,413 63,076
1987
728.1 116 39 63 135 208 55 359
7361 33 1,991 1,161 16,740 5,244 13,871 5,130
TOTAL 149 2,030 1,224 16,875 5,432 13,926 5,489
1986
728.1 294 15 117 674 1,040 10 334
7361 267 3,054 812 7,886 1,358 3,176 2,078
TOTAL 561 3,069 929 8,560 2,398 3,186 2,412
1985
728.1 510 56 483 464 1,323 18 137
7361 50 2,903 3,915 10,578 3,090 3,902 5,249
TOTAL 560 2,959 4,398 11,042 4,413 3,920 5,386

Code Description
728.1 Machine tools specialised for particular industries.
731 Machine tools operated by laser or other light beam process.
733 Forgoing or die-stamping machines (inc. presses)and hammers.
735 Tools holders and self-opening dieheads.
736 Metal working machine tools.

1SITC Rev 2—Replaced by codes 731, 733 and 735 from 1988 onwards.