HC Deb 30 June 1994 vol 245 cc660-1W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

To ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table corresponding to table F2 of the 1991 "Supplement to the Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics" showing separately the weighted average, excluding the United Kingdom, against the EC Six and the other listed countries.

Mr. Needham

The information requested is given in the table.

Main manufacturing countries' exports of manufactures: unit value indices 1985=100
Weighted average excluding United Kingdom
Non-EC1 EC(6)
1975q1 64 83
1975q2 65 83
1975q3 63 78
1975q4 64 77
1976q1 64 77
1976q2 66 78
1976q3 66 80
1976q4 68 83
1977q1 68 85
1977q2 69 86
1977q3 70 88
1977q4 73 91
1978q1 75 96
1978q2 78 98
1978q3 83 102
1978q4 85 108
1979q1 87 112
1979q2 88 112
1979q3 91 121
1979q4 92 126
1980q1 93 132
1980q2 96 131
1980q3 99 134
1980q4 101 129
1981q1 101 120
1981q2 100 113
1981q3 100 109
1981q4 104 116
1982q1 104 113
1982q2 103 112
1982q3 101 107
1982q4 100 107
1983q1 102 110
1983q2 101 106
1983q3 100 102
1983q4 102 102
1984q1 102 103
1984q2 103 103
1984q3 100 98
1984q4 99 95
1985q1 97 91
1985q2 98 96
1985q3 101 104
1985q4 105 112
1986q1 108 122
1986q2 110 124
1986q3 114 131
1986q4 115 135
1987q1 119 145

Non-EC1 EC(6)
1987q2 122 147
1987q3 122 145
1987q4 126 155
1988q1 129 156
1988q2 130 155
1988q3 127 145
1988q4 131 155
1989q1 131 152
1989q2 128 148
1989q3 128 149
1989q4 130 157
1990q1 132 167
1990q2 132 169
1990q3 137 177
1990q4 142 187
1991q1 141 183
1991q2 136 163
1991q3 136 162
1991q4 139 174
1992q1 125

Weighted average excluding United Kingdom
Year Non-EC1 EC (6)
1975 64 80
1976 66 80
1977 70 88
1978 80 101
1979 90 118
1980 97 131
1981 101 115
1982 102 110
1983 101 105
1984 101 99
1985 100 101
1986 112 128
1987 122 148
1988 130 153
1989 129 152
1990 138 175
1991 134 170
1Non-EC comprises: Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, Canada and Japan.

Note: Manufactures is defined as SITC sections 5–8.

Data is only available back to 1975.

Updated and rebased to 1990=100 data will be available from 8 July 1994 on the central shared database, which can be accessed from the Library.