§ Sir David SteelTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will publish a table showing(a) the net invisible trade and (b) the net visible trade between the 541W United Kingdom and the five poorest nations, by 1990 standards, in Latin America, in Africa and in Asia since 1975.
§ Mr. RedwoodInformation on invisible trade with individual countries is not available. The information requested on the balance of visible trade between the United Kingdom and the poorest nations in South America, Africa and Asia is given in the table:
United Kingdom visible trade with the five countries with the lowest per capita GNP in South America Exports (fob) minus imports (cif) £'000 Haiti Guyana Bolivia Dominican Republic Honduras 1975 2,004 -18,160 -13,728 1,407 3,471 1976 1,820 -7,883 -13,830 5,248 4,097 1977 2,352 -12,873 -25,266 8,477 5,863
United Kingdom visible trade with the six countries with the lowest per capita gross national product in Africa Exports (fob) minus Imports (cif) Ethiopia Chad Guinea-Bis Zaire Mozambique Malawi £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 1975 5,428 808 192 -7,410 7,426 -10,688 1976 -2,331 -501 312 -20,843 -6,113 -18,847 1977 14,561 574 514 -45,010 -2,270 -35,612 1978 12,614 4,993 2,787 -77,912 6,970 -25,654 1979 3,094 372 -235 -44,753 5,166 -19,113 1980 10,696 82 482 -24,969 333 -20,651 1981 11,490 363 595 4,466 16,047 -12,741 1982 16,735 1,080 430 5,189 3,856 -21,624 1983 22,021 2,235 384 9,936 19,455 -23,877 1984 49,613 2,905 499 28,573 6,794 -42,333 1985 52,284 748 1,207 -222 4,435 -66,693 1986 27,710 -1,555 1,105 17,024 11,841 -28,426 1987 33,271 -94 1,136 17,598 14,587 -26,153 1988 39,210 -1,125 903 17,590 18,644 -2,565 1989 31,376 2,640 1,156 19,350 5,686 2,714
United Kingdom visible trade with the five countries with the lowest per capita gross national product in Asia Exports (fob) minus imports (cif) Bhutan Bangladesh Nepal Laos Burma £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 1975 8 6,264 1,783 -15 3,724 1976 31 4,987 1,006 176 4,333 1977 35 5,051 2,104 336 8,675 1978 24 27,255 634 1,509 20,663 1979 2 27,807 4,234 215 12,644 1980 93 37,354 750 688 15,165 1981 -17 30,147 656 477 24,423 1982 89 32,624 795 526 38,888 1983 98 25,797 -1,102 569 17,235 1984 86 5,089 890 483 10,068 1985 109 34,274 -1,513 517 10,306 1986 75 14,101 -1,644 1,310 4,743 1987 396 18,929 376 1,120 20,915 1988 12,289 13,769 -4,416 1,330 7,258 1989 35 25,743 -504 -1,369 8,733