Beef: Imports
(asked on 17th June 2014) - 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 much beef was imported into the UK from (a) the Republic of Ireland, (b) the rest of the EU and (c) non-EU countries in each of the last 18 months.
The following tables provide details of UK imports of beef and veal as recorded in the Official Overseas Trade Statistics for the period January 2012 – April 2014.
Thousand Tonnes | Thousand Tonnes | ||||||||||||||
Imports from | Month | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | Imports from | Month | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | ||||||
Irish Republic | January | 12.3 | 12.1 | 13.3 | Non EU | January | 1.6 | 2.6 | 2.2 | ||||||
February | 13.7 | 10.8 | 12.2 | February | 1.3 | 1.7 | 1.5 | ||||||||
March | 14.9 | 13.0 | 16.2 | March | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.5 | ||||||||
April | 12.9 | 11.9 | 13.5 | April | 1.4 | 2.3 | 2.1 | ||||||||
May | 12.5 | 12.4 | May | 2.1 | 2.6 | ||||||||||
June | 11.8 | 14.9 | June | 3.1 | 3.5 | ||||||||||
July | 11.3 | 12.2 | July | 2.2 | 3.5 | ||||||||||
August | 12.4 | 11.7 | August | 2.2 | 3.1 | ||||||||||
September | 13.8 | 14.9 | September | 1.9 | 2.8 | ||||||||||
October | 15.0 | 15.6 | October | 2.2 | 3.5 | ||||||||||
November | 14.0 | 15.1 | November | 2.0 | 2.5 | ||||||||||
December | 15.1 | 16.4 | December | 1.7 | 2.0 | ||||||||||
Irish Republic annual total | 159.7 | 161.0 | Non EU annual total | 23.0 | 31.7 | ||||||||||
Rest of EU | January | 3.8 | 3.9 | 3.4 | |||||||||||
February | 4.1 | 3.2 | 3.4 | Ó Crown Copyright | |||||||||||
March | 4.4 | 2.9 | 3.3 | Source: HM Revenue and Customs | |||||||||||
April | 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.1 | 2013 & 2014 data is subject to amendments | |||||||||||
May | 5.3 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||
June | 4.3 | 3.3 | EU data based on EU 28 | ||||||||||||
July | 4.8 | 4.1 | |||||||||||||
August | 4.7 | 3.7 | |||||||||||||
September | 4.2 | 3.9 | |||||||||||||
October | 5.1 | 4.4 | |||||||||||||
November | 4.4 | 4.6 | |||||||||||||
December | 3.8 | 4.2 | |||||||||||||
Rest of EU annual total | 53.4 | 45.6 | |||||||||||||