Textile Industry

HC Deb 16 February 1981 vol 999 c8W

Mr. Cryer

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the balance of trade in textile goods for 1980 and 1981 to the most recent practicable date.

Mr. Parkinson

In 1980 the crude deficit—exports valued fob minus imports cif—in trade in textile goods^* was £447 million. No information for 1981 is at present available.

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