§ Mr. Teddy Taylorasked the Secretary of State for Industry, pursuant to the reply by the Lord Privy Seal, of 5 May, Official Report, c. 39, if he will specify the sensitive industrial sectors of the United Kingdom economy which suffer from Japanese export penetration and thereby lead to job losses in the United Kingdom.
§ Mr. MacGregorAt the present time the most sensitive industrial sectors in which Japanese import penetration causes particular concern are cars, light commercial vehicles and certain consumer electronic products. In these sectors, the Japanese manufacturers voluntarily restrain the level of imports into the United Kingdom after consultation with the appropriate industrial sectors here. There is increasing concern at the rising trend of Japanese imports in a number of other areas including advanced machine tools and other high technology industries.