Food: Imports
(asked on 16th March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, what the net value was of food imports from Africa in the last 10 years.
The following table shows the net value (imports minus exports) of food imports from Africa, for the last ten years, according to HMRC trade statistics[1]:
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Year | Total Exports | Total Imports | Net Imports |
2006 | 173.5 | 1,200.7 | 1,027.1 |
2007 | 168.5 | 1,260.7 | 1,092.2 |
2008 | 263.6 | 1,428.6 | 1,165.0 |
2009 | 259.2 | 1,506.2 | 1,247.1 |
2010 | 372.1 | 1,419.7 | 1,047.7 |
2011 | 375.0 | 1,497.6 | 1,122.6 |
2012 | 430.0 | 1,419.9 | 990.0 |
2013 | 502.9 | 1,565.5 | 1,062.6 |
2014 | 594.6 | 1,467.5 | 872.9 |
2015 | 448.7 | 1,307.9 | 859.2 |
Total trade | 3,588.1 | 14,074.3 | 10,486.2 |
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Source: HM Revenue and Customs | |||
Data prepared by the Food & Trade Statistics team, Great British Food Unit, Defra | |||
2015 data are subject to amendments | |||