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.