§ Mr. Squireasked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the United Kingdom's (a) visible exports and (b) visible imports as a proportion of total production of goods, as compared with each member of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in the latest year for which figures are available.
§ Mr. ParkinsonThe available information on as comparable a basis as possible is as follows:
Country Year Imports (cif)*/Production† (Per Cent.) Exports (fob)*Production† (Per Cent.) United Kingdom‡ 1979 67 59 Australia 1977 ¶34 36 Austria 1979 65 50 Belgium║ 1978 108 102 Canada 1979 ¶63 66 Denmark 1975 81 68 Finland 1979 62 64 France 1979 48 44 Germany 1979 40 44 Greece 1979 61 24 Iceland NA NA Ireland 1973 96 73 Italy 1979 48 45 Japan 1978 17 22 Luxembourg║ 1977 166 143 Netherlands 1977 107 103 New Zealand 1978 45 48 Norway 1978 70 61 Portugal 1976 54 23 Spain 1978 29 20 Sweden 1978 62 66 Switzerland NA NA Turkey 1978 17 9 United States 1978 23 18 Yugoslavia 1978 31 18 * Imports and exports figures relate to all inward and outward moving goods excluding monetary gold and currency. † Production is defined as the contribution to gross domestic product of the agriculture, hunting, forestry and fishing, mining and quarrying,