Manufactured Goods

HC Deb 04 February 1992 vol 203 cc112-3W

Mr. Cousins

To ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will state the annual size and increase in the value of exports and imports of manufactured goods in each year since 1985 to(a) the European Community, (b) the United States, (c) Japan and (d) all other countries; and also express the year on year changes as an index with 1985 as the base.

Mr. Sainsbury

The available information is contained in the following tables. Manufactured goods are defined as sections 5 to 8 of the standard international trade classification.

Table 2: United Kingdom Trade in Manufactured Goods Increase in value over previous year, £ billion
	EC	USA	Japan	Other Countries
	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import
1985
1986	2.3	3.6	0.1	-1.3	0.1	0.8	-0.4	1.4
1987	4.2	4.5	0.6	0.8	0.3	0.6	1.3	2.3
1988	3.8	6.1	0.2	1.5	0.3	1.0	0.9	3.9
1989	5.7	6.9	1.3	2.6	0.5	0.5	2.8	2.6
1990	6.0	1.3	0.4	0.8	0.3	-0.4	1.1	0.4
1991	3.9	-4.5	-1.0	-0.6	-0.4	0.0	-0.7	-0.9

Note: EC includes the former East Germany throughout.

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.

Table 3: United Kingdom Trade in Manufactured Goods Value Index, 1985 = 100
	EC	USA	Japan	Other Countries
	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import
1985	100	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
1986	110	111	101	84	114	120	98	110
1987	130	125	108	93	149	134	104	127
1988	147	145	111	111	181	160	108	155
1989	172	166	127	142	239	173	121	173
1990	200	170	132	151	274	164	126	175
1991	217	156	120	144	232	165	123	169

Note: EC includes the former East Germany throughout.

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.

Table 4: United Kingdom Trade in Manufactured Goods Year on year percentage change
	EC	USA	Japan	Other Countries
	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import	Export	Import
1985
1986	10.3	11.2	1.5	-15.7	13.7	20.5	-2.0	10.2
1987	17.4	12.7	6.8	10.8	31.4	11.3	6.3	15.0
1988	13.4	15.3	2.4	19.0	21.3	19.2	4.1	21.9
1989	17.4	14.9	14.3	27.7	31.8	8.2	12.0	11.7
1990	15.8	2.5	3.8	6.6	14.7	-5.3	4.1	1.5
1991	8.8	-8.2	-9.0	-5.0	-15.4	0.7	-2.6	-3.7

Note: EC includes the former East Germany throughout.

Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom.