§ Mr. David ShawTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what were the levels of sales of machine tools to(a) the middle east, (b) Iraq and (c) Iran between 1974 and 1979. [16987]
§ Mr. NelsonInformation before 1979 is available only for those countries which accounted for a significant proportion of UK exports of machine tools or those for which machine tools formed a significant proportion of 437W total UK visible exports. The available information is given in the table:
UK exports of machine tools1 £ million, current prices 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 Cyprus n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.26 Syria n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.43 Lebanon n/a 0.24 n/a n/a n/a 0.36 Israel 1.02 1.79 n/a n/a n/a 1.88 Jordan n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.22 Saudi Arabia n/a 0.85 2.52 n/a n/a 1.31 Kuwait n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.59 Bahrain n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.22 Qatar n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.28 Abu Dhabi n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.48 Dubai n/a 0.27 n/a 2.47 n/a 2.63 Sharjah etc. n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.01 Oman n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.45 North Yemen n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.11 South Yemen n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 0.04 Iraq n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 2.40 Iran 1.34 2.46 4.02 9.53 n/a 1.68 Middle east n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a 13.34 Notes: 1Machine tools are defined as heading 715.1 in the Standard International Trade Classification (Revision 1) until 1977 and as heading 736 of SITC (R2) from 1978. n/a = not available.
Source:
Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.