§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will place in the Library returns showing for each country of the OECD, for each country of the European Union and for Jordan, Iraq, Iran and Saudi Arabia, the imports and exports of postal services as defined in the Standard International Trade Classification for each year between 1982 and 1993.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe only postal services recorded within the Standard International Trade Classification are SITC 911.0—mail not classified by kind. The information is not readily available for all the countries listed over the period requested and could be obtained only at disproportionate cost. Information for some of the countries is published in the relevant country volumes of the "United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics", copies of which are available in the Library of the House.