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Electronic Equipment: Exports

Volume 463: debated on Monday 10 September 2007

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform how many (a) fridges, (b) washing machines, (c) cookers, (d) televisions, (e) video recorders, (f) computers and monitors and (g) other items of household electrical equipment were exported from the UK in each of the last five years; and how many items of each type of equipment were exported to each country in each year. (151933)

Detailed information is published by HM Revenue and Customs in their Overseas Trade Statistics and at their website

www.uktradeinfo.com.

The following table shows recorded figures for the value and numbers of exports for selected standard international trade classification (SITC) codes.

775217751169731 & 775867617638175220 & 75230

SITC

Value

Number

Value

Number

Value

Number

Value

Number

Value

Number

Value

Number

2002

23.9

0.4

20.4

0.1

241.8

4.9

619.6

9.0

186.9

90.9

2,795.7

7.4

2003

28.0

1.5

24.1

0.2

222.7

4.4

582.0

5.3

164.8

3.3

2,669.0

3.9

2004

30.2

0.4

35.1

0.2

161.8

2.5

806.2

6.3

198.2

2.4

2,427.6

3.6

2005

41.5

1.5

55.0

1.1

155.8

1.8

798.0

6.8

225.3

2.0

2,434.6

4.1

2006

48.7

0.8

59.1

0.4

146.2

2.0

1,071.0

10.1

395.5

3.1

2,979.6

10.6

Notes:

These SITC codes represent:

77521: refrigerators, household type (electric or other), whether or not containing a deep-freezer compartment.

77511: household or laundry-type washing machines (including machines which wash and dry), each of a dry linen capacity not exceeding 10 kg.

69731: domestic cooking appliances (e.g. kitchen stoves, cookers etc.) and plate warmers, non-electric, of iron or steel.

77586: microwave ovens, other ovens, cookers, cooking plates, boiling rings, grillers and roasters.

761: TV receivers (including monitors and projectors) whether or not incorporating radio receivers or recording/reproducing apparatus.

76381: video recording or reproducing apparatus, whether or not incorporating a video tuner.

75220: digital automatic data processing machines containing in the same housing at least a CPU and an input and output unit, whether or not combined.

75230: digital processing units, whether or not presented with rest of a system or containing one or two of: storage, input, output units.