HC Deb 05 March 1965 vol 707 cc316-8W
Mr. Ian Lloyd

asked the President of the Board of Trade what information he has on the annual import of machine tools into Japan between 1955 and 1965 from the United States of America, the Common Market, the European Free Trade Association excluding the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom.

Mr. Mason

Imports of metal-cutting machine tools into Japan for each year from 1955 to 1963, the latest year for which figures are available, from the United States of America, the European Economic Community, the European Free Trade Association excluding the United Kingdom, and the United Kingdom are shown on the following table.

JAPAN
Imports of Machine Tools [Metal Cutting] 1960 1961 1962 1963
Metric tons £'000 Metric tons £'000 Metric tons £'000 Metric tons £'000
TOTAL IMPORTS … … 14,611 19,566 30,257 38,399 48,264 57,279 23,350 29,483
of which from
UNITED STATES … … 5,050 8,547 9,357 16,132 19,131 26,272 7,484 11,242
COMMON MARKET … … 6,771 6,051 14,605 14,619 21,463 21,437 12,283 12,377
of which
West Germany … … 5,292 4,519 11,464 11,296 16,903 17,102 10,672 10,934
France … … 754 887 1,747 1,961 1,927 2,083 884 902
Italy … … 678 585 1,236 1,200 2,199 1,824 383 321
Netherlands … … 6 14 18 28 51 70 12 42
Belgium-Luxemburg … … 41 47 140 134 383 357 332 179
E.F.T.A. [excl. U.K.] … … 1,387 3,090 2,078 4,141 2,586 5,239 1,616 6,751
of which
Switzerland … … 1,305 2,976 1,850 3,851 2,096 4,555 1,422 6,297
Austria … … 27 63 60 87 79 230 40 189
Sweden … … 43 54 143 178 308 377 136 248
Denmark … … 12 7 25 26 103 76 18 17
Norway … … — — — — — — — —
Portugal … … — — — — — — — —
UNITED KINGDOM … … 330 437 1,607 1,703 2,094 2,312 579 799

Symbol: —=Nil or less than half the final digit.

Source: Trade of Japan.

Mr. Ian Lloyd

asked the President of the Board of Trade what information he has on the output of the Japanese machine tool industry and the proportion of this output supplied to the shipbuilding industry in Japan from January, 1955 to December, 1964, inclusive.

Mr. Mason

The information available from Japanese statistics shows that the aggregate value of output of Japanese metal-cutting machine tools from 1955 to 1963, the latest year for which there are figures, amounted to about £392 million. No information is available concerning the output of metal-forming machine tools or about the proportion of the output of machine tools supplied to the shipbuilding industry.

Mr. Ian Lloyd

asked the President of the Board of Trade what information he has on the output of the British machine tool industry and the proportion of this output supplied to the shipbuilding industry in the United Kingdom from January, 1955 to December, 1964, inclusive.

Mr. Mason

The available statistics on output show that the aggregate value of deliveries by United Kingdom manufacturers of metal-working machine tools, including metal-forming tools, between January, 1955 and December, 1964

amounted to about £990 million. Figures showing the proportion of United Kingdom output going to particular industries in this country are not available.