§ Mr. Spriggsasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will publish in the Official Report a detailed list of sensitive products imported from Japan each year from 1960 up to the latest year for which this information is available; and how these figures differ with comparable products exported to Japan from the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. Meacher, pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 30th June 1978; Vol. 952, c. 722], gave the following information:
45WAmong the imports from Japan which have been regarded as especially sensitive are passenger motor cars, commercial vehicles, steel, ball and roller bearings, television sets, certain audio equipment, pottery and stainless-steel tableware. Details of these imports and some indication
Imports Exports 1960 1965 1970 1975 1977 1977 Passenger motor cars: Quantity (numbers) 1 168 4,291 124,807 166,694 2,172 Value 1 63 2,031 112,202 248,495 8,804 Commercial vehicles: Quantity (numbers) Nil Nil 2 997 5,702 14 Value Nil Nil 0.2 1,175 6,658 97 Steel (ingots, semi-finished and finished steel): Quantity (thousand tonnes) N/A 5 22 395 164 3 Value N/A 966 4,511 94,606 41,520 505 Television broadcast receivers (colour and monochrome): Quantity (numbers) N/A 1,931 67,953 371,143 414,683 169 Value N/A 61 1,795 26,013 36,196 47 Ball and roller bearings: Quantity (tonnes) 83 1,031 1,946 3,713 4,210 28 Value 53 641 2,050 8,362 11,153 736 Pottery: Quantity (tonnes) 494 713 1,200 1,509 1,864 748 Value 180 385 814 2,359 4,379 2,223 Stainless steel tableware (spoons, forks, fish-eaters, butter-knives, ladles and similar kitchen or tableware): Quantity (thousand dozens) N/A N/A N/A 1,517 995 2 Value N/A N/A N/A 1,005 1,418 8 Audio equipment (including music centres): Quantity (numbers) N/A N/A 629,799 2,368,028 2,479,580 653,175 Value N/A N/A 4,428 61,071 118,310 5,521 Notes:
All values are £ thousand—imports c.i.f. and exports f.o.b.
N/A ½ figures not available on a basis readily comparable with those for later years.