coals to newcastle (and back again)
Submitted by antarchi on October 2, 2009 - 13:09
* We export 5,000 tonnes of toilet paper from the UK to Germany, but then import over 4,000 tonnes back again
* 4,400 tonnes of ice cream gets exported from the UK to Italy, and 4,200 tonnes is then imported back
* We import 22,000 tonnes of potatoes from Egypt and export 27,000 tonnes back the other way
* 116 tonnes of ‘Sweet biscuits, waffles and wafers, gingerbread and the like’ (the official category for trade statistics) comes into the UK, rumbling passed 106 tonnes headed in the opposite direction.
