HC Deb 01 April 1980 vol 982 cc130-1W
Mr. Cryer

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what is the balance of trade in textile goods between the United Kingdom and other countries in total, including EEC States, for 1979 and January and February 1980.

Mr. Parkinson

[pursuant to his reply, 25 March 1980, c. 543]: The United Kingdom had a crude deficit—exports fob less imports cif—on trade in textile goods* of £658 million in 1979 and £131 million in January-February 1980.

*SITC (R2) Division 65, groups 266, 267, 268 part, 842 to 847.

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