HC Deb 10 May 2000 vol 349 cc400-1W
Mr. Gill

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what was the value of goods exported to other EU countries in 1999; and what proportion of those goods were trans-shipped in Continental ports to go on to non-EU destinations. [121410]

Dawn Primarolo

I have been asked to reply.

HM Customs & Excise are the Department responsible for collecting trade statistics on the movement of goods with other countries.

The value of goods exported to other EC countries in 1999 was £96.85 billion. Where goods are moved in transit through other EC countries en route to non-EC countries, exporters are required to report the country of final destination and such goods will not be counted as EC trade.