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Dept of Trade and Industry

Answer

Mr. Soames: To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what the volume of trade between the UK and each Commonwealth country was in the last year for which figures are available; and what estimate she has made of UK investment in Commonwealth countries. [85716] Nigel Griffiths: Statistics on UK trade in goods are published by HM Customs and Excise while those on UK investment overseas are compiled by the Office for National Statistics. The latest available information is as follows: £ million _________________________________________________________________________________________________. UK exports: Goods UK imports: Goods UK outward FDI stock Country 2001 2001 End 2000 Anguilla 1.2 0.1 n/a Antigua Barbuda 17.3 3.4 1-- Australia 2,321.9 1,837.9 10,004 Australian Oceania 0.4 0.7 0 Of which: Christmas Islands 0.0 0.6 2-- Cocos Islands 0.3 0.1 2-- Heard and McDonald 0.0 0.0 2-- Norfolk Island 0.0 0.0 2-- Bahamas 15.2 7.1 223 Bangladesh 68.0 455.2 158 Barbados 55.7 40.2 112 Belize 13.8 34.9 1-- Bermuda 34.0 45.3 6,071 Botswana 24.2 1,076.9 88 British Indian Ocean Territories 0.5 0.0 1-- British Virgin Islands 7.3 6.8 64 Brunei 59.6 34.1 1-- Canada 3,250.3 3,786.3 8,430 Cayman Islands 9.7 3.1 443 Cook Islands 0.1 0.0 n/a Cyprus 291.5 250.1 40 Dominica 10.1 12.0 0 Falkland Islands 19.8 6.9 1-- Gambia 18.5 7.7 1-- Ghana 144.4 134.0 102 Gibraltar 127.6 14.3 237 Grenada 7.0 0.8 1-- Guyana 22.7 60.6 34 India 1,780.7 1,884.1 1,246 Jamaica 70.7 117.9 598 Kenya 172.5 211.8 430 Kiribati 0.1 0.1 0 Lesotho 1.9 1.9 1-- Malawi 8.2 15.0 25 Malaysia 1,033.3 2,012.2 1,741 Maldives 5.0 6.4 1-- Malta 217.4 148.0 81 Mauritius 52.3 337.8 234 Montserrat 1.1 0.0 n/a Namibia 12.7 316.5 1-- Nauru 0.8 0.0 0 New Zealand 311.5 560.5 1.919 Niue and Tokelau 10.3 2.2 1-- Of which: Niue Island 0.3 0.0 2-- Tokelau Islands 10.0 2.2 2-- Nigeria 683.6 68.2 804 Pakistan 229.6 437.9 513 Papua New Guinea 4.3 41.4 1-- Pitcairn 0.9 0.0 0 Samoa 4.8 0.0 0 Seychelles 13.4 47.9 1-- Sierra Leone 61.9 3.0 1-- Singapore 1,603.5 2,146.4 6,300 Solomon Islands 0.3 0.5 1-- South Africa 1,547.4 2,953.3 3,051 Sri Lanka 142.4 400.8 108 St. Helena 9.7 0.4 1-- St. Kitts and Nevis 7.5 7.1 1-- St. Lucia 17.0 16.5 1-- St. Vincent 9.2 13.7 1-- Swaziland 4.3 33.6 1-- Tanzania 66.0 35.2 39 Tonga 1.3 0.3 1-- Trinidad and Tobago 91.6 53.9 -102 Turks and Caicos 0.8 0.2 1-- Tuvalu 0.1 0.2 0 Uganda 34.8 8.5 35 Vanuatu 0.5 0.1 1-- Zambia 23.9 11.7 45 Zimbabwe 36.2 91.4 130 The Commonwealth 14,794.0 19,805.2 n/a _________________________________________________________________________________________________. 1 Disclosive 2 Not separately available Note: n/a = Not available Sources: HM Customs and Excise Office for National Statistics

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

85716; 396 c65-6W

Session

2002-03

Subjects

Commonwealth Exports Imports Trade

Contains statistics

Yes

Link

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