Bishop of St Albans asks about overseas meat trading

The Bishop of St Albans received the following written answers on 7th February 2023:

Baroness Penn (Con): HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website.

Classification codes (according to the Harmonised System) are available to assist you in accessing published trade statistics data in the UK Global Tariff. Goods moving to and from the UK are identified by an eight-digit commodity code. These are publicly available from the UK Trade Tariff.

Pork falls within two commodity code chapter headings 0203 and 0210. The full commodity code would depend on the specific compounds of the pork. There could be additional commodity codes that have not been included, that could be considered as ‘pork’ depending upon the requestor’s specific definition.

The amount of pork exported from and imported to the UK in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 is in the attached table [on Hansard] and can be found on the UK Trade Information website [1] and on Gov.uk [2].

[1] UK Trade Info(opens in a new tab)

[2] UK Integrated Online Tariff: Look up commodity codes, duty and VAT rates – GOV.UK (trade-tariff.service.gov.uk)

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HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is responsible for the collection and publication of data on imports and exports of goods to and from the UK. HMRC releases this information monthly, as a National Statistic called the Overseas Trade in Goods Statistics (OTS), which is available via their dedicated website.

The quantity of lamb exported from and imported to the UK for 2022, 2021, 2020 and 2019 is as follows:

Table 1: UK Exports of Lamb, January 2019 – November 2022
	Statistical Value (£)
CN8	2019	2020	2021	2022 (Jan to Nov)
16029091	1,320,433	1,150,919	2,012,407	2,372,809
Grand Total	1,320,433	1,150,919	2,012,407	2,372,809
				Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics

Table 2: UK Imports of Lamb, January 2019 – November 2022
	Statistical Value (£)
CN8	2019	2020	2021	2022 (Jan to Nov)
16029091	6,854,890	7,934,648	2,247,931	13,332,740
Grand Total	6,854,890	7,934,648	2,247,931	13,332,740
				Source: HMRC Overseas Trade Statistics

Notes:

Data for 2019-2021 are for calendar years. Data for 2022 is aligned with the most recently published data, e.g. up to and including November 2022
CN8 code is defined as:
16029091: Prepared or preserved meat or offal of sheep (excl. sausages and similar products, finely homogenised preparations put up for retail sale as infant food or for dietetic purposes in containers of a net weight of
Export trade is defined as both EU and Non-EU exports
Import trade is defined as both EU and Non-EU imports
2022 is an open year and is therefore provisional and is subject to change
Further information can be found on the UK Trade Information website and on Gov.uk.

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Beef falls within commodity code chapter headings 0201 and 0202. The full commodity code would depend on the specific compounds of the beef.  There could be additional commodity codes that have not been included, that could be considered as ‘Beef’ depending upon the requestor’s specific definition.

The amount of beef exported from and imported to the UK in 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 is in the attached table [on Hansard] and can be found on the UK Trade Information website and on Gov.uk.

Hansard

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