Cars and Commercial Vehicles (Imports)

HC Deb 19 July 1982 vol 28 cc6-9W

34. Mr. Les Huckfield

asked the Minister for Trade whether he will publish in the Official Report details to the latest convenient date of imports into the United Kingdom motor car and commercial vehicle market, listing imports by country of origin, giving a comparison with the same date in each of the last five years.

Mr. Peter Rees

The information is as follows:

	January-March	January-March	January-March	January-March	January-March
	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982
FRANCE:
Number	32,929	46,555	57,106	29,104	34,147
Value	68,204	104,338	142,659	83,527	97,918
BELGIUM-LUXEMBOURG:
Number	22,840	11,989	44,459	17,880	40,529
Value	46,003	27,212	105,675	39,229	125,644
NETHERLANDS:
Number	1,661	3,256	5,326	6,281	8,389
Value	3,008	7,008	12,642	15,384	23,050
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
Number	51,187	83,413	60,714	52,228	69,486
Value	134,058	254,817	194,023	153,668	259,827
ITALY:
Number	29,000	22,451	30,419	4,108	20,296
Value	48,132	46,522	69,470	10,034	40,758
IRISH REPUBLIC:
Number	1,544	1,868	6,299	4,668	4,072
Value	3,329	4,896	13,752	10,991	12,217
SWEDEN:
Number	6,643	9,761	9,297	6,152	4,752
Value	21,121	37,042	37,445	25,183	20,600
SPAIN:
Number	1,416	15,091	26,210	18,257	13,536
Value	2,038	28,745	50,746	34,564	31,652
SOVIET UNION:
Number	2,016	3,524	3,816	2,075	2,698
Value	1,966	3,886	4,429	2,565	3,417
CZECHOSLOVAKIA:
Number	643	1,947	1,896	1,064	2,390
Value	603	1,615	1,696	831	1,873
JAPAN:
Number	57,120	50,118	62,403	51,025	59,526
Value	94,542	99,945	100,844	99,058	138,104
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Number	518	611	306	234	106
Value	1,708	2,418	1,654	1,008	615
OTHER COUNTRIES:
Number	322	2,243	1,654	946	3,655
Value	831	3,244	2,477	1,657	7,231
Commercial Vehicles
TOTAL:
Number	10,621	16,113	22,290	9,849	12,444
Value	65,197	84,961	125,641	44,035	84,766
of which consigned from:
FRANCE:
Number	1,709	2,149	3,094	1,149	2,285
Value	4,307	6,089	14,179	3,549	9,074
BELGIUM-LUXEMBOURG:
Number	33	87	226	181	693
Value	284	512	1,901	2,529	13,203
NETHERLANDS:
Number	770	713	857	319	871
Value	8,976	10,078	13,094	3,372	13,931
FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY:
Number	2,717	4,258	6,631	1,996	3,500
Value	13,966	25,919	38,049	11,640	21,932
ITALY:
Number	572	803	1,076	80	526
Value	2,763	4,123	6,598	382	2,793
IRISH REPUBLIC:
Number	66	72	196	240	194
Value	689	872	1,622	1,482	1,770
DENMARK:
Number	2	56	20	16	10
Value	22	173	255	256	84
NORWAY:
Number	7	17	23	16	28
Value	154	482	825	521	1,082
SWEDEN:
Number	1,845	1,584	2,182	414	576
Value	25,189	22,885	31,522	5,981	10,930
PORTUGAL:
Number	24	—	47	249	1
Value	419	—	740	873	4

	January-March	January-March	January-March	January-March	January-March
	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982
SPAIN:
Number	1,124	1,081	1,047	276	1,527
Value	2,887	2,850	2,378	707	2,773
JAPAN:
Number	1,659	5,069	6,375	4,725	2,113
Value	3,388	8,977	10,283	9,307	3,981
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA:
Number	35	79	72	93	39
Value	1,406	692	1,516	2,083	2,001
OTHER COUNTRIES:
Number	58	154	444	95	81
Value	747	1,355	2,679	1,353	1,208

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom, SITC (R2): passenger motor cars: Group 781 and Sub-Group 784.1 (part); commercial vehicles: Groups 782 and 783 and Sub-Group 784.1 (part).

Note: Corresponding information by country or origin could not be provided within acceptable limits of cost.