§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table revising and updating table 2, "Large Fast Growing Sectors", in the world market economies published in 1989 in his Department's report on manufacturing into the late 1990s.
§ Mr. McLoughlinThe information requested is in the table.
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Large fast growing commodity groups in the world market economies1 $ billion Per cent. change Percentage UK share of world market2 SITC 1990 1984–90 1984 1990 761 Television receivers 17 250.4 7.2 6.7 898 Musical instruments, pts 19 221.6 10.7 9.7 896 Works of art etc 14 217.2 15.9 25.0 893 Articles of plastic nes 29 215.8 7.6 8.6 726 Printing, bookbinding, machinery, pts 10 199.3 10.8 10.4 752 Automatic data processing equipment 73 194.4 12.6 10.4 714 Engines and motors nes 22 184. 17.7 15.3 736 Metalworking machine-tools 21 183.4 5.9 6.3 894 Toys, sporting goods, etc 27 181.9 6.7 6.3 792 Aircraft etc 54 180.5 8.8 8.6 831 Travel goods, handbags 10 171.2 6.0 5.6 845 Outerwear knit nonelastic 26 170.6 6.1 6.4 034 Fish, fresh, chilled frozen 16 170.4 4.9 3.7 821 Furniture, parts thereof 31 170.3 7.0 6.7
$ billion Per cent. change Percentage UK share of world market2 SITC 1990 1984–90 1984 1990 744 Mechanical handling equ 21 168.1 6.5 7.7 872 Medical instruments nes 10 162.9 6.9 6.0 843 Women's outerwear nonknit 32 159.5 5.2 6.1 741 Heating, cooling equipment 21 156.7 5.1 5.4 759 Office, ADP mch pts, acces 46 156.1 10.6 11.8 533 Pigments, paints, etc 11 154.1 4.9 6.0 764 Telecom, equipment, pts, acc nes 54 151.8 5.0 6.5 842 Men's outerwear not knit 20 144.1 7.5 6.1 773 Electrical distributing equipment 14 141.6 4.7 5.7 745 Nonelec machinery, tools nes 15 136.6 7.4 7.4 772 Switchgear etc, parts nes 36 135.9 6.4 6.4 642 Paper, etc. precut, arts of 13 135.2 8.4 9.6 541 Medicinal, pharmaceutical product 35 132.9 4.8 5.9 1 Based on world imports; only commodity groups where import value exceeds $10 billion have been included. 2 United Kingdom imports as a percentage share of world imports. Source: United Nations International Trade Statistics Yearbook vol 2, 1988 and 1990.