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Food Imports (Levies)

Volume 891: debated on Monday 5 May 1975

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43.

asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will publish a list showing the duties and levies on imported dairy products, meat, including lamb, tinned food, fruit juices, fruit and cereals in force on 1st January 1975 and a similar list for 1st January 1972.

The following table shows the information requested for representative categories of foodstuffs within the product groups named. The table shows the pre-accession United Kingdom levies which applied to imports from all sources and were in force on 1st January 1972 and also the levies under EEC arrangements, net of compensatory amounts, which applied, on 1st January 1975, to imports from outside the Community. The tariff is highly complex, and therefore only the most favoured nation rate —that applied to imports from countries with no preferential arrangements—is

DUTIES AND LEVIES PAID ON SELECTED FOOD ITEMS AT 1ST JANUARY 1972 AND 1ST JANUARY 1975
1st January 19721st January 1975
ItemDuty (MFN)LevyDuty(MFN)Levy
Wheat£2·00 per ton denatured
£6·50 per ton milling
Barley10%£5·25 per ton
MaizeFree to 10%depending on type£3·75 per ton
Butter£301.39 per ton*
Cheddar cheese15%£398·52 per ton†
Beef—
boned or boneless5%11%—‡
other:
chilled£0·3500 per cwt.8%+£0·1866 per cwt.—‡
fresh or frozen£0·3110 per cwt.8%+£0·1866 per cwt.—‡
Lamb, fresh, chilled or frozen£0·933512%+£0·3734 per cwt.
Canned Beef (corned)15%19·4%
Canned Salmon2·5%7%
Canned Peaches containing6%7·6% to 13·2%
added sweetening matter.depending on size of container and sugar content
Canned orange juice—
not containing more than 20% by weight of added sweetening matter.Free7·6% to 18·6% depending on sugar content and value. 11%
other3%
Fresh oranges5%
* The net levy on New Zealand butter (under Protocol 18 arrangements) was £190·15.
† The net levy on New Zealand cheddar cheese (under Protocol 18 arrangements) was £327·11.
‡The only beef imported into the Community in January 1975 was under the GATT levy-free quota