§ Mr. Austin MitchellTo ask the President of the Board of Trade if he will publish a table corresponding to table F2 of the 1991 "Supplement to the Monthly Review of External Trade Statistics" showing separately the weighted average, excluding the United Kingdom, against the EC Six and the other listed countries.
§ Mr. NeedhamThe information requested is given in the table.
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Main manufacturing countries' exports of manufactures: unit value indices 1985=100 Weighted average excluding United Kingdom Non-EC1 EC(6) 1975q1 64 83 1975q2 65 83 1975q3 63 78 1975q4 64 77 1976q1 64 77 1976q2 66 78 1976q3 66 80 1976q4 68 83 1977q1 68 85 1977q2 69 86 1977q3 70 88 1977q4 73 91 1978q1 75 96 1978q2 78 98 1978q3 83 102 1978q4 85 108 1979q1 87 112 1979q2 88 112 1979q3 91 121 1979q4 92 126 1980q1 93 132 1980q2 96 131 1980q3 99 134 1980q4 101 129 1981q1 101 120 1981q2 100 113 1981q3 100 109 1981q4 104 116 1982q1 104 113 1982q2 103 112 1982q3 101 107 1982q4 100 107 1983q1 102 110 1983q2 101 106 1983q3 100 102 1983q4 102 102 1984q1 102 103 1984q2 103 103 1984q3 100 98 1984q4 99 95 1985q1 97 91 1985q2 98 96 1985q3 101 104 1985q4 105 112 1986q1 108 122 1986q2 110 124 1986q3 114 131 1986q4 115 135 1987q1 119 145
Non-EC1 EC(6) 1987q2 122 147 1987q3 122 145 1987q4 126 155 1988q1 129 156 1988q2 130 155 1988q3 127 145 1988q4 131 155 1989q1 131 152 1989q2 128 148 1989q3 128 149 1989q4 130 157 1990q1 132 167 1990q2 132 169 1990q3 137 177 1990q4 142 187 1991q1 141 183 1991q2 136 163 1991q3 136 162 1991q4 139 174 1992q1 125 —
Weighted average excluding United Kingdom Year Non-EC1 EC (6) 1975 64 80 1976 66 80 1977 70 88 1978 80 101 1979 90 118 1980 97 131 1981 101 115 1982 102 110 1983 101 105 1984 101 99 1985 100 101 1986 112 128 1987 122 148 1988 130 153 1989 129 152 1990 138 175 1991 134 170 1Non-EC comprises: Sweden, Switzerland, United States of America, Canada and Japan. Note: Manufactures is defined as SITC sections 5–8.
Data is only available back to 1975.
Updated and rebased to 1990=100 data will be available from 8 July 1994 on the central shared database, which can be accessed from the Library.