HC Deb 27 July 1981 vol 9 cc289-90W
Mr. Ernie Ross

asked the Secretary of State for Trade what has been the United. Kingdom's average annual deficit or surplus in trade in textiles with (a) the rest of the European Economic Community and (b) the United States of America in the latest available year.

Mr. Parkinson

In the period February 1980 to January 1981, the United Kingdom had crude deficits in trade in textiles of £143 million with the rest of the European Community and of £106 million with the United States of America.

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom (R2) Division 65, Groups 266 and 267, Sub-group 268.7 (part) and Item 847.11.