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Mr. Corbyn
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will list the annual import and export statistics for trade between Britain and Iraq and break the figure down between visibles and invisibles for each year since 1979.
Mr. Redwood
[holding answer 24 November 1989]: Information on the value of invisible trade between the United Kingdom and Iraq is not available. Figures for visible trade are as follows:
| £ million | ||
| Imports | Exports | |
| 1979 | 451 | 201 |
| 1980 | 556 | 322 |
| 1981 | 103 | 624 |
| 1982 | 171 | 874 |
| 1983 | 96 | 400 |
| 1984 | 77 | 343 |
| 1985 | 293 | 445 |
| 1986 | 250 | 444 |
| 1987 | 324 | 272 |
| 1988 | 176 | 412 |
| 19891 | 63 | 343 |
| 1 To 30 September 1989. | ||
Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.