Clothing Exports

HC Deb 12 December 1979 vol 975 cc660-2W

Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing the volume and value of clothing produced and exported by the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the United States of America and Japan in

TABLE 1
INDEX OF PRODUCTION OF THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY
					(1975=100) 1979
1952	1960	1967	1972	1978	First quarter*
72.1	81.1	82.1	94.1	106.1	106.7
* Seasonally adjusted
Estimates of the value of the sales of the industry were:

TABLE 2
VALUE OF SALES BY THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY
					£ million 1979
1952	1960	1967	1972	1978	First quarter*
523	654	747	1,123	2,711	733
* Not seasonally adjusted
Source: 1972 Census of Production; Other years—estimates based on Annual Censuses of Production.
Figures for other countries are not readily available.
The volume and value of exports of clothing, including hosiery and knitted clothing, were:

TABLE 3
VALUE OF EXPORTS OF CLOTHING*
£ million 1979
	1960	1967	1972	1978	First quarter
United Kingdom	…	…	…	33.6	64.3	144.4	670.0	144.5
German Federal Republic	…	35.8	91.7	262.4	1,095.4	†
France	…	…	…	…	60.9	99.1	316.3	893.0	†
Italy	…	…	…	…	58.5	182.9	488.5	1,723.5	†
United States of America	…	34.5	65.6	99.7	352.6	†
Japan	…	…	…	…	78.8	121.7	171.6	249.5	†
* Standard International Trade Classification (Revised 2) Division 84.
Not available.
Figures for 1952 are not available.
Sources: United Kingdom—Overseas Trade Statistics.
Other countries—OECD series 'C' except for Japan in 1960–United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics.
Sterling figures for countries other than the United Kingdom converted from dollars at annual average exchange rates.

TABLE 4
VOLUME OF EXPORTS OF CLOTHING*
'000 tonnes
							1960	1967	1972	1978
United Kingdom	…	…	…	…	…	†	†	†	53.8
German Federal Republic	…	…	…	9.3	19.8	42.6	59.8
France	…	…	…	…	…	…	19.4	15.8	39.3	45.9
Italy	…	…	…	…	…	…	13.4	41.5	85.5	139.1
Japan	…	…	…	…	…	…	61.8	†	63.2	33.0
* Standard International Trade Classification (Revised 2) Division 84.
Not available.
Figures for 1952 and 1979 to date are not available.
Figures for the USA are not available.
Source: OECD series 'C', except for Japan in 1960–United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics.

1952, 1960, 1967, 1972, 1978 and this year to date.

Mr. David Mitchell

The volume of production, as measured by the index of production, of the United Kingdom made-up clothing industry—Order XV, excluding footwear, of the Standard Industrial Classification—was;