§ Sir Anthony Grantasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what has been the value and volume of the export of books and publications, and the countries to which they were exported, for each of the last five years.
§ Mr. ChannonThe available information is as follows:
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1979 1980 1981 1982 *1983 Value (£ million fob) 248 280 317 340 387 Weight (thousand tonnes) 109 107 103 102 110 * Provisional. Source:
UK Overseas Trade Statistics, SITC/R2 Sub-group 892.2 and Item 892.11 (printed books, booklets, brochures, pamphlets and leaflets; newspapers, journals and periodicals).
Notes:
(a) These figures exclude exports of books and other publications sent by parcel post, which are included in Group 911 (postal packages not classified according to kind);
(b) True volume figures (deflated values) are not available in this degree of detail;
(c) The fifteen principal countries of destination of these exports, in order of value in 1983, have been the USA, Australia, the Irish Republic, South Africa, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Canada, the Federal Republic of Germany, Nigeria, France, India, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Japan, and Italy.