To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will state the value and volume of exports in each year of the 1980's of (a) beryllium, (b) polonium and (c) bismuth, specifying in each case the countries stated as the destinations of the exports.
Information is given in the table. Information on polonium is not available as it is not separately identified in the overseas trade statistics. To provide country details would involve disproportionate cost.
Beryllium 1
| Bismuth 2
| |||||
Volume (kg)
| Value (£k) Total
| of which to EC
| Volume (MT)
| Value (£k) Total
| of which to EC
| |
| 1983 | 17,898 | 23 | 0 | 310 | 1,343 | … |
| 1984 | 452 | 33 | 2 | 292 | 1,881 | … |
| 1985 | 725 | 44 | 0 | … | … | … |
| 1986 | 0 | 0 | 0 | … | … | … |
| 1987 | 13 | 4 | 3 | … | … | … |
| 1988 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 566 | 4,270 | 2,109 |
| 1989 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 413 | 3,419 | 2,135 |
1 As defined by code 689.91 of the Standard International Trade Classification (SITC). | ||||||
2 As defined by SITC Code 689.92 for 1988–89 and Combined Nomenclature Code 810411 (part of SITC 689.99) for 1980–87. …= not available. | ||||||
Source: Overseas Trade Statistics