HC Deb 04 June 1980 vol 985 c712W
Mr. Cryer

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the trade deficit in textile goods for the United Kingdom in the first four months of 1980.

Mr. Parkinson

[pursuant to his reply, 23 May 1980, c. 400]: In the period January to April 1980 the crude deficit—exports valued fob minus imports cif—on trade in textile goods* was £213 million.

*SITC (Rev. 2) Division 65, Groups 266, 267, 268 part, 842 to 847.

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