§ Mr. Sillarsasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a table showing the trade balance between the United Kingdom and Romania for each year in the period 1960 to 1972.
§ Sir G. HoweFigures for the balance of trade with individual countries are not available. Imports cif in 1960 and 1961 were £3.9 million and £6.1 million respectively, and exports fob were £4.3 million and £14.8 million respectively. Corresponding information for 1962 is given in Tables 274 and 275 of the 1971 issue of the Annual Abstract of Statistics; for 1963 to 1971 in Tables 285 and 286 of the 1972 issue of the Annual Abstract of Statistics; and for 1972 in Tables II and V of the December 1972 issue of the Overseas Trade Statistics. The difference between these import and export figures, however, is not a precise measure of the balance of trade, because,inter alia, of the difference in the bases of valuation.