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Why does Britain import the same number of chocolate waffles as it exports?

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Why does Britain import the same number of chocolate waffles as it exports?

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Bizarrely, the DTI trade figures for chocolate waffles, and other UK imports and exports, often balance out. One year, we imported 465 tonnes of gingerbread into the UK while exporting 460 tonnes. Ships, planes and lorries pass each other in the night, carrying virtually identical goods back and forth between countries. Surely it would be easier to eat our own, or email the recipes of those that are slightly different? Sometimes this sort of “boomerang trade” happens because we want to eat foods that are out of season in the UK, or because we like slightly different varieties of a product. But that hardly explains why Britain imported 5,000 tonnes of toilet rolls from Germany last year, only to export 4,000 tonnes back again, or pretty much the same in the case of ice-cream to Italy and back. In fact, the main reason this happens is because there is little to deter it – the environmental costs of transporting goods internationally are simply not counted as they should be. This in turn

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