To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry in what products imports from sub-Saharan Africa have grown since the implementation of the Everything but Arms agreement; by what margin; and if she will make a statement. [110768]
According to information published by HM Customs and Excise, the value of UK imports from sub-Saharan Africa increased, from 2000 to the year ending February 2003, in 36 out of 64 commodity groups. The value of UK imports and the percentage change, for those commodities that showed an increase, are given in the following table:
| UK import of goods from sub-sharan Africa1 (£ million) | |||||
SITC Division
| Commodity
| 2000 | Year to February 2003 | ||
| 32 | Coal, coke and briquettes | 133.1 | 264.9 | 131.7 | 98.9 |
| 33 | Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials | 43.1 | 51.7 | 8.6 | 19.9 |
| 42 | Fixed vegetable fats and oils; crude, refined or fractionated | 3.6 | 4.4 | 0.8 | 21.0 |
| 43 | Animal and vegetable oils and fats, processed, and waxes of animal or vegetable origin | 0.2 | 0.5 | 0.3 | 175.3 |
| 51 | Organic chemicals | 3.6 | 7.1 | 3.5 | 98.8 |
| 53 | Dyeing, tanning and colouring materials | 1.0 | 1.2 | 0.2 | 20.3 |
| 54 | Medicinal and pharmaceutical products | 3.5 | 8.6 | 5.1 | 146.1 |
| 55 | Essential oils and resinoids and perfume materials; toilet, polishing and cleansing preparations | 15.4 | 20.7 | 5.3 | 34.3 |
| 56 | Fertilizers, (other than those of group 272) | 0.1 | 0.3 | 0.2 | 154.0 |
| 57 | Plastics in primary forms | 1.6 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 43.7 |
| 58 | Plastics in non-primary forms | 1.2 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 2.7 |
| 63 | Cork and wood manufactures (excluding furniture) | 36.5 | 42.9 | 6.4 | 17.5 |
| 64 | Paper, paperboard and articles of paper pulp; etc. | 12.0 | 25.0 | 13.0 | 108.3 |
| 66 | Non-metallic mineral manufacturers | 1,362.4 | 2,022.1 | 659.7 | 48.4 |
| 72 | Specialised industrial machinery | 16.5 | 21.4 | 4.9 | 30.0 |
| 74 | General industrial machinery and equipment, NES and machine parts NES | 75.4 | 95.9 | 20.5 | 27.2 |
| 78 | Road vehicles | 105.9 | 315.8 | 209.9 | 198.3 |
| 79 | Other transport equipment | 56.0 | 91.6 | 35.7 | 63.7 |
| 82 | Furniture and parts thereof; bedding, mattresses, supports, cushions and similar stuffed furnishings | 61.6 | 65.5 | 3.9 | 6.4 |
| 85 | Footwear | 2.4 | 3.7 | 1.3 | 56.1 |
| 87 | Professional, scientific and control instruments (and apparatus NES) | 43.1 | 52.5 | 9.4 | 21.9 |
| 89 | Miscellaneous manufactured article NES | 35.3 | 42.3 | 7.0 | 19.8 |
| Total | 4,201.3 | 5.343.7 | 1,142.3 | 27.2 | |
| imports | |||||
1Sub-Saharan Africa comprises the following countries: Mauritania, Bali, Burkina, Niger, Chad, Cape Verde, Senegal, Gambia, Guinea-Bissau, Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Sao Tome and Principe, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, St. Helena, Angola, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Seychelles, British Indian Ocean Territory, Mozambique, Madagascar, Mauritius, Comoros, Mayotte, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, South Africa, Namibia, Botswana, Swaziland and Lesotho. | |||||
2Commodities are grouped according to Divisions of the Standard International Trade Classification, revision 3. | |||||
Note:
NES: Not elsewhere specified.