date:Mar 20, 2013
Strong growth in exports of value added food products (+3.7%) was counterbalanced by sharp falls in some of the UK's largest commodity categories, such as cereals (-27.9%). Last year's poor UK harvest impacted heavily on the supply of grain available for export in Q4 alone, the value of cereal exports fell by 160m (compared to Q4 2011).
Further contraction in exports to the EU27 (-1.4%) was again counterbalanced by continued growth to non-EU markets, up by 4.6%.
Despite staying at 2011 leve