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Mr. Skeet
asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the value of machine tools exported to the several member countries of the Common Market, to North America and to the Commonwealth, excluding Canada, over the past five years, the value of machine took imported into the United Kingdom from the several members of the Common Market, by country, and from North America over the past five years, and the value and types of machine tools imported into the United Kingdom from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and associated territories over the past three years.
| METAL-WORKING MACHINERY—MACHINE TOOLS | |||||
| Value—£ | |||||
| — | 1957 | 1958 | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 |
| UNITED KINGDOM EXPORTS TO— | |||||
| E.E.C.— | |||||
| Western Germany | 1,073,050 | 571,401 | 705,944 | 1,279,822 | 2,067,360 |
| Netherlands | 764,993 | 536,748 | 385,835 | 671,334 | 952,766 |
| Belgium | 475,262 | 278,831 | 196,084 | 534,078 | 1,758,514 |
| Luxembourg | 631 | 1,180 | 969 | 3,332 | 59 |
| France | 2,124,607 | 1,981,145 | 2,697,253 | 1,613,285 | 1,956,571 |
| Italy | 876,241 | 714,463 | 559,509 | 953,237 | 2,339,094 |
| North America | 4,948,910 | 2,787,561 | 3,550,351 | 3,558,737 | 2,696,803 |
| Commonwealth (Less Canada) | 11,026,717 | 11,301,426 | 9,961,418 | 13,047,055 | 12,263,716 |
| UNITED KINGDOM IMPORTS FROM— | |||||
| E.E.C.— | |||||
| Western Germany | 8,425,271 | 6,445,250 | 5,703,147 | 6,613,861 | 9,883,738 |
| Netherlands | 244,901 | 245,171 | 240,296 | 300,786 | 437,734 |
| Belgium | 236,669 | 254,621 | 214,235 | 232,652 | 1,213,656 |
| Luxembourg | 8 | 434 | 37 | 1,748 | 3,241 |
| France | 802,020 | 706,776 | 1,267,963 | 941,805 | 1,487,451 |
| Italy | 315,250 | 502,817 | 550,699 | 955,440 | 1,149,504 |
| North America | 7,451,577 | 5,532,487 | 5,406,987 | 10,369,871 | 12,592,111 |
| NOTE: Commonwealth figures include trade with the Republic of South Africa. | |||||
| UNITED KINGDOM IMPORTS OF METAL-WORKING MACHINERY— | |||
| MACHINE TOOLS FROM THE SOVIET UNION AND EASTERN EUROPE | |||
| Value—£ | |||
| — | 1959 | 1960 | 1961 |
| Automatics, bar and chucking | — | 2,749 | — |
| Boring—Vertical | 4,800 | 4,818 | 25,987 |
| Boring—Other | 99,771 | 110,880 | 103,856 |
| Drilling | 5,127 | 28,568 | 34,946 |
| Gear-cutting | 7,619 | 4,443 | 36,706 |
| Grinding, lapping and honing | 9,883 | 52,030 | 142,833 |
| Lathes—Capstan and turret | 3,576 | 11,283 | 45,594 |
| Lathes—Other | 15,687 | 73,461 | 117,205 |
| Milling | 58,844 | 114,722 | 321,739 |
| Planing | 22,319 | 6,242 | 6,711 |
| Presses—Hydraulic—Extrusion | 3,992 | — | — |
| Presses—Hydraulic—Other | 4,054 | 881 | — |
| Presses—Other descriptions | 2,931 | 7,923 | 10,729 |
| Punching and shearing, and other plate and sheet metal-working, including straightening rolls | — | 24,815 | 34,538 |
| Sawing | 2,802 | 1,786 | 9,462 |
| Screwing and threading | — | — | 15,059 |
| Shaping and slotting | 1,552 | 5,563 | 4,544 |
| Unit and transfer machines, with or without unit heads | 3,145 | —. | — |
| Other—new | 42,412 | 2,000 | 18,885 |
| Used | 5,000 | 5,000 | 10,000 |
| Parts, other than machine tool cutting and forming parts | 48,209 | 28,275 | 36,205 |
Mr. Erroll
Yes. The following is the information.