HC Deb 08 March 1968 vol 760 cc173-4W
Mrs. Ewing

asked the President of the Board of Trade what has been the extent of the adverse trade balance with the Argentine in each of the last 10 years.

Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody

The values of imports, c.i.f. from, and exports and re-exports, f.o.b. to, the Argentine are given in Volume 1 of the Annual Statements of the Trade of the United Kingdom for the years 1958 to 1966 and, for 1967, in Table IV of the December Overseas Trade Accounts. The difference between these figures is not, however, a good measure of the visible trade balance with the Argentine because, for instance, of the differences in valuation.