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EU Trade: Palestinians

Volume 479: debated on Monday 21 July 2008

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the value has been of imports of produce into (a) the UK and (b) the EU under the interim EU-Palestinian Authority Association Agreement; and if he will make a statement. (219745)

The Association Agreement between the European Community and the Palestinian Authority was signed in February 1997. Its trade provisions came into force on an interim basis on 1 July 1997.

For the period July 1997 to December 2007, EUROSTAT’s Comext trade statistics database recorded UK and EU imports of goods from the Occupied Palestinian Territories worth about €7.8 million and €72.9 million, i.e. about £5.3 million and £48.7 million respectively.