§ Mr. Edwin Wainwrightasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the amount, in tons, of imported steel for the years 1961 to 1965, respectively.
§ Mr. DarlingThe following is the information:
United Kingdom imports of finished and semi-finished steel products* Year Thousand tons 1961 … … … … 450 1962 … … … … 760 1963 … … … … 1,190 1964 … … … … 1,540 1965 … … … … 560 * Includes ingots, blooms, billets, slabs; coils; rails; plate and sheet; bars; rods; sections; hoop and strip; tubes, pipes and fittings; castings and forgings. Note: The figures for 1961 and 1962 are not strictly comparable with those for later years because of small differences in classification.
IMPORTS IN 1965 £ million Commodity S.I.T.C. Code (a) Sterling Area (b) North America European Economic Community Food and beverages … Section 0 + Division 11 752 221 178 Raw materials … Sections 2 + 4 584 218 161 Manufactured goods: chiefly for further processing … Sections 5 + 6 328 338 303 finished manufactures … Sections 7 + 8 90 278 336 (a) Standard International Trade Classification (Revised). (b) Including Rhodesia and Burma, on the definition used in the Overseas Trade Accounts. When Rhodesia and Burma are excluded the figures are £743, £578, £327 and £89 million respectively.