HC Deb 13 July 1979 vol 970 cc348-9W
Mr. Leighton

asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will circulate in the Official Report a list of the " many areas of trade ", referred to by his hon. Friend the Parliamentary Secretary on 2 July in the course of a reply to a question from the hon. Member for Romford (Mr. Neubert), in manufactured goods in which the United Kingdom's trade with the EEC is doing well compared to 1970, showing imports and exports from the EEC Eight and EEC Six in each case for each year since 1970 and in the first five months of this year at an annual rate.

Mr. Parkinson

The hon. Member appears to have misunderstood my reply to his supplementary on trade with EEC. My reference to many other areas in which we do extremely well related to our performance in the markets of the world, for example the developing countries, where our exports have increased very rapidly in recent years and our trade balance is in healthy surplus.

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