HC Deb 15 May 1978 vol 950 cc77-8W
Mr. John Moore

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will show the level of passenger car exports from the United Kingdom as a proportion of world trade in passenger cars each year since 1967.

Mr. Meacher

United Kingdom exports as a proportion of OECD exports of passenger cars measured in United States dollars were as follows:

Per cent.
1967 10.1
1968 8.8
1969 8.8
1970 7.7
1971 6.8
1972 5.3
1973 4.7
1974 4.6
1975 4.4
1976 3.7

Sources: OECD Statistics of Foreign Trade and UN Commodity Trade Statistics.

NOTE. Figures for world trade in passenger cars SITC(R) 732.1 are not available but OECD member countries accounted for about 95 per cent. of world trade.

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