Colombia: Overseas Trade

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform what the volume of trade between the UK and Colombia was in (a) 2007 and (b) 2008. (265470)

HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics data on recorded trade in goods with Columbia are shown in the following table:

*£ million*
	UK exports of goods to Columbia	UK imports of goods from Columbia
2007	140	370
2008	156	651

ONS data published in the UK Balance of Payments Pink Book 2008 were:

*£ million*
	UK exports of services to Columbia	UK imports of services from Columbia
2007	70	37

Geographical estimates of trade in services in 2008 are likely to be published on 31 July.

Volume 490: debated on Monday 23 March 2009