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UK Trade with EC

Volume 457: debated on Monday 5 March 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the UK's trade balance with the EU was in each of the last three years. (124499)

[holding answer 1 March 2007]: According to the ONS UK “Balance of Payments ‘Pink Book 2006’”, the UK's deficit with the EU25 in trade in goods and services was £28.3 billion, £30.5 billion and £37.9 billion in the three years 2003, 2004 and 2005 respectively.