§ Mr. Austin Mitchellasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for 1970, 1977 and 1982 the proportion of United States imports in each standard industrial trades classification division for manufactures accounted for by imports from the United Kingdom, such information as he has as to the corresponding figures for imports from Germany and Japan, and the respective changes in the real exchange rate based on the Smithsonian parity.
§ Mr. ChannonThe information on imports is in the following tables. There is no unique real exchange rate.
United States imports of manufactures 1970 Percentage shares from SITC Rev 1 Divisions United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany Japan 51 6.9 13.6 15.5 52 34.5 29.8 1.2 53 9.2 39.1 6.1 54 12.8 9.7 6.1 55 3.9 5.1 2.4 56 0.1 0.9 3.3 57 3.9 3.9 5.4 58 17.0 20.4 33.7 59 12.4 12.4 3.2 61 15.0 11.4 6.2 62 9.3 5.7 15.3 63 0.7 1.4 19.4 64 0.5 0.5 2.6 65 6.3 11.7 26.6 66 19.3 5.9 15.8 67 5.9 11.6 44.1 68 4.6 2.9 4.5 69 6.4 8.4 39.1 71 13.2 19.7 14.3 72 3.9 5.2 43.3 73 4.1 19.9 14.1 81 1.6 12.7 20.1 82 2.5 3.4 7.9 83 2.3 3.2 24.5 84 2.8 1.9 21.8 85 3.2 2.6 14.6 86 6.4 18.7 31.3 89 9.9 6.3 34.1 Source: OECD Series 'C'.
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United States imports of manufactures 1977 Percentage shares from SITC Rev 1 Divisions United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany Japan 51 12.3 10.5 9.4 52 33.0 11.0 0.3 53 12.1 35.8 9.6 54 11.3 14.9 12.7 55 4.6 6.5 6.8 56 0.9 2.1 0.4 57 2.3 7.7 3.7 58 13.6 22.1 21.6 59 12.0 17.5 7.7 61 10.4 3.9 2.9 62 6.2 8.8 18.1 63 0.4 0.6 9.5 64 1.0 1.2 1.2 65 5.4 4.9 21.7
Percentage shares from SITC Rev 1 Divisions United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany Japan 66 11.8 4.9 11.9 67 4.2 9.3 40.9 68 2.4 3.8 3.3 69 3.8 6.7 34.3 71 9.6 16.5 21.2 72 2.9 4.7 37.0 73 3.0 13.5 30.0 81 2.4 5.2 8.8 82 4.5 2.6 2.4 83 0.8 1.2 6.1 84 1.5 0.6 5.7 85 0.6 1.0 1.3 86 3.4 10.9 40.8 89 8.0 3.8 27.3 Source: OCED Series 'C'.
United States imports of manufactures 1982 Percentage snares from SITC Rev 2 Divisions United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany Japan 51 10.6 12.3 12.2 52 6.6 11.6 4.0 53 9.5 29.3 23.7 54 16.8 13.3 11.1 55 6.6 8.1 6.3 56 0.1 1.2 0.6 57 1.8 0.8 2.4 58 10.3 14.5 25.4 59 6.0 12.0 6.3 61 5.8 3.7 2.3 62 3.7 6.1 28.9 63 0.6 0.8 4.2 64 1.3 1.2 1.8 65 4.1 3.1 19.4 66 4.8 5.2 13.0
Imports of manufactures—United Kingdom shares of markets Percentages * European Community Denmark Irish Republic Greece * EFTA 1970 6.6 15.0 61.7 10.3 12.9 1971 6.6 14.0 58.1 8.9 12.7 1972 6.3 13.2 58.3 8.6 11.5 1973 6.0 11.4 56.4 6.7 10.1 1974 6.0 11.2 53.2 6.4 9.6 1975 6.3 11.1 54.7 6.5 9.7 1976 6.6 10.8 52.6 5.9 9.3 1977 7.0 11.6 52.5 7.0 9.7 1978 7.0 10.6 52.0 6.7 9.6 1979 7.1 10.6 51.4 8.1 9.4 1980 7.0 9.9 51.6 6.6 9.5 1981 6.8 8.5 45.1 7.2 8.0 1982 6.2 8.8 42.0 5.4 †7.0 1983 January-Septembert‡ 6.1 8.4 38.7 6.6 n/a * EC and EFTA taken as current members throughout. † Excluding Portugal and Iceland. ‡ Data in respect of the third quarter are not yet available. n/a=Not readily available. Sources:
1983—Eurostat and National Sources; other years, OECD.
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Percentage shares from SITC Rev 2 Divisions United Kingdom Federal Republic of Germany Japan 67 3.2 12.2 37.3 68 4.6 4.3 5.8 69 3.5 5.6 31.5 71 20.3 7.3 16.1 72 8.6 24.0 15.7 73 7.8 17.1 39.2 74 9.0 15.5 25.1 75 3.0 4.7 49.2 76 1.0 0.8 51.9 77 2.5 5.4 21.6 78 1.5 11.6 44.0 79 11.7 2.7 12.4 81 2.2 5.0 5.0 82 3.6 4.3 3.3 83 0.3 0.7 2.3 84 0.9 0.3 3.1 85 0.4 0.4 0.8 87 11.5 16.8 26.6 88 3.0 5.8 45.1 89 6.9 3.5 14.0 Source: OECD Trade Series 'C'.