HC Deb 15 April 1981 vol 3 cc137-8W
Mr. Squire

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the value and proportion of visible trade within the European Economic Community attributable to each member State during the latest year for which figures are available.

Mr. Parkinson

The information for 1979 is as follows:

manufacturing, electricity, gas and water and construction industries.

Source: National income and expenditure and United Kingdom balance of payments.

Imports are valued fob, not cif.

Source: OECD, national accounts of OECD countries 1961–78, Vol. II.

Source: United Nations Monthly Bulletin of Statistics, March 1981.

Mr. Squire

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the United Kingdom's share of visible exports to each member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the latest year for which individual figures are available.

Mr. Parkinson

Information, in terms of the United Kingdom's share of OECD countries' imports, is given in the table below. The figures relate to 1979, the latest year for which complete information is available.

United Kingdom's share of OECD countries' imports
Percentages 1979
Australia 11
Austria 3
Belgium/Luxembourg 8
Canada 3
Denmark 12
Finland
France
Federal Republic of Germany 6
Greece
Iceland 11
Irish Republic 50
Italy 4
Japan
Netherlands
New Zealandr j 15
Norway 14
Portugal 9
Spain 5
Sweden 12
Switzerland
Turkey
United States of America 4

Sources:

New Zealand: IMF-Direction of Trade.

All others: OECD statistics of foreign trade Series 'A' (March 1981).

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