House of Lords written question – answered at on 5 July 2012.
To ask Her Majesty's Government, in the 2010 calendar year, what was the split of the total imports of goods from outside the European Union, between (1) industrial goods, and (2) processed and unprocessed agricultural and fish products; and what were the corresponding aggregate gross (before handling charge) values of the common external tariff charged by HM Revenue and Customs on (a) industrial goods, and (b) processed and unprocessed agricultural and fish products.
Import traffic from outside the European Union by volume in 2010 was split 3% (agricultural and fish products), 97% (industrial).
By share of the total customs duty paid the split between agricultural and fish products versus industrial goods was 16% (£444,787,544.00) and 84% (£2,423, 566,814.00) respectively.
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