Biofuels: Imports
(asked on 2nd September 2014) - View Source
Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, what information he holds on the level of wood pellet imports from (a) the USA and (b) Canada in each of the last three years for which figures are available.
Data on the value and net mass of imports of wood pellets are published by HMRC in Overseas Trade Statistics. Data for the years 2011 to 2013 are shown in the following tables. Due to routine updating of the commodity codes by Eurostat, wood pellets were coded as ‘44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets’ in 2011 but then classified to the new code ‘44013100 – wood pellets’ in 2012 and 2013. For this analysis we have combined these two headings to provide a consistent series.
Wood pellet imports to the UK from the USA |
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2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
Value wood pellets imports (£s) | 32,516,769 | 59,993,226 | 196,894,259 | |
Net mass of wood pellet imports (kg) | 274,453,183 | 475,336,518 | 1,684,810,418 | |
Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics | ||||
Note: wood pellets were classified as 'HS 44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets' in 2011 and as 'HS 44013100 - Wood pellets' in 2012 and 2013 | ||||
Wood pellet imports to the UK from Canada |
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2011 | 2012 | 2013 | ||
Value wood pellets imports (£s) | 77,712,194 | 108,073,728 | 168,603,061 | |
Net mass of wood pellet imports (kg) | 591,780,847 | 854,602,676 | 1,355,464,003 | |
Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics | ||||
Note: wood pellets were classified as 'HS 44013020 - Sawdust and wood waste and scrap, agglomerated in pellets' in 2011 and as 'HS 44013100 - Wood pellets' in 2012 and 2013 | ||||