§ Mr. PaiceTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to his answer of 13 February 1998,Official Report, column 436, on meat imports, if he will provide a breakdown by country of the imports listed as other. [30459]
§ Mr. RookerOverseas Trade Statistics shows that small values of beef, sheep meat, pig meat (including bacon and ham) and poultry meat were dispatched for import into the UK between January and October 1997 from the countries in the table. The values are provisional and subject to amendment. They will be subject to a degree of statistical error. The overall level of errors will be low, but these errors will have a much greater proportional effect on countries with small values of trade. Therefore, great care is needed when interpreting the data in the tables as they will inevitably include a number of errors.
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£000 Country Value Beef Paraguay 192 Uganda 84 Romania 40 South Africa 40
£000 Country Value Greece 22 Japan 21 Malaysia 21 Canada 11 Belize 4 Finland 2 Sweden 2 Total 440 Pig meat Argentina 650 Hungary 528 Finland 288 Austria 260 Greece 104 South Africa 13 New Zealand 1 Total 1,843 Sheep meat Iceland 314 Brazil 207 USA 147 Denmark 96 South Africa 55 Austria 37 China 36 Singapore 22 Finland 18 Italy 9 Total 941 Poultry meat Uruguay 385 Hungary 278 Greece 83 USA 56 Singapore 40 Norway 25 Sweden 8 Finland 5 Portugal 2 Hong Kong 1 New Zealand 1 Total 884