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32.
Mr. Gregory
To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will make a statement on trade between the United Kingdom and Kuwait since the end of the Gulf war.
Mr. Sainsbury
United Kingdom exports began to recover almost immediately after the end of the war so that by the third quarter of 1991 the value of exports was at the 1989—pre-war—level of approximately £56 million per quarter. Imports from Kuwait are recovering more slowly.