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Wheat (Exports)

Volume 35: debated on Monday 17 January 1983

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asked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to which countries the United Kingdom has exported wheat in 1982; and what was the quantity in each case.

Details are available only up to the end of September. The quantities of wheat exported in the first nine months of this year, by destination, were as follows:

DestinationQuantity (Tonnes)
European Community member States:
Belgium/Luxembourg58,665
Denmark10,885
France185,671
Federal Republic of Germany157,574
Irish Republic100,745
Italy62,957
Netherlands61,616

Destination

Quantity (Tonnes)

Third countries:
Algeria61,033
Cuba239,714
Ethiopia36,900
German Democratic Republic70,771
Norway57,457
Romania80,210
USSR2,399
Others28,541

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics