Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty’s Government, in the 2013 calendar year, what was the aggregate value of imports of goods from outside the European Union on which HM Revenue and Customs effectively charged zero Common External Tariff (CET), whether this was because the product in question was not liable to CET or because it was zero-rated.

During 2013, the aggregate value of goods imported from outside the EU on which no customs duty was charged was £216,685,828,867.