HC Deb 14 March 1994 vol 239 cc468-9W
Mr. Campbell-Savours

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will list in order of pound sterling volumes the 10 principal product imports from Malaysia.

Mr. Needham

The information is provided in the following table.

Top ten imports from Malaysia (£ million, current prices)
Commodity Value
Microprocessors with a processing capacity between 16 bits and 32 bits. 208
Motor vehicles of a cylinder capacity between 1000cc and 1500cc, new, assembled, other than station wagons and estate cars 84
Digital monolithic integrated units, other than memories, microprocessors, microcontrollers; other than gate arrays, standard cells, programmable logic devices; other than control circuits, interface circuits. 51
Data processing equipment, not elsewhere specified, other than peripheral units, punches, verifiers and calculators. 29
Microcontrollers with a processing capacity not exceeding 8 bits. 25
Plywood consisting solely of sheets of wood, each plynot exceeding 6mm thickness with at least one outer ply of: Dark Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti, White Lauan, Sipo, Limba, Okoume, Obeche, Acajou' Afrique, Sapelli, Baboen, Mahogany, Palissandre du Bresil or Bois de Rose Femelle. 24
Unwrought tin, not alloyed. 23
Wood of Dark, Red Meranti, Light Red Meranti and Meranti Bakau, sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, of a thickness exceeding 6mm. 23
Commodity Value
Colour TV receivers with an integral tube, with a screeen width/height ratio less than 1.5, with a diagonal measurement of the screen between 32cm and 37cm. 23
Non-ditigal monolithic integrated units other than amplifiers, voltage and current regulators, control circuits, interface circuits. 22

Source: HM Customs and Excise.