Pigs: Imports
(asked on 24th April 2018) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, how many live pigs were imported by country of import origin in each year between 2012 and 2017.
The number of live pigs imported into the UK between the years 2012 and 2017 and their countries of origin are as follows:*
Country of origin | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
Belgium | 88 | 13 | 38 | 39 | 12 | 3 |
Canada | 177 | 247 | 1 | 357 | 30 | 1837 |
Czech Republic | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 |
Denmark | 499 | 1630 | 2244 | 1948 | 1442 | 1453 |
France | 269 | 2 | 0 | 24 | 0 | 2 |
Germany | 10 | 0 | 978 | 751 | 101 | 1 |
Norway | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 0 | 46 |
Sweden | 190 | 382 | 333 | 172 | 0 | 0 |
The Netherlands | 13 | 4 | 29 | 67 | 133 | 75 |
United States of America | 0 | 167 | 120 | 303 | 151 | 159 |
*This excludes data for Republic of Ireland
TRACES (Trade Control and Expert System) is a European Commission system employed by EU member states to facilitate and record animal/animal product movements into and throughout the EU.
The information that we have provided is a true reflection of the information that we have access to, and was correct at the time the information was obtained from TRACES. We cannot guarantee the accuracy of this data, as we can only rely on the information that has been input into TRACES by a third party.