§ 28. Mrs. FyfeTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what is the present balance of trade in office equipment with(a) the EC and (b) the rest of the world.
§ Mr. SainsburyThere is no sector in official statistics which covers all office equipment. In the sector of office machines and automatic data-processing machines, however, the United Kingdom had a positive crude balance of trade of £547 million with the EC countries and a deficit of £1,939 million with the rest of the world in the year to November 1990.