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Mr. D. E. Thomas
asked the Secretary of State for Trade what was the average annual percentage growth, expressed in dollars, of imports and exports, respectively, of each of the member States of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, during the periods 1948–58 and 1958–73 and at the latest date for which figures are available, respectively.
| Imports ($ Values) | Exports ($ Values) | |||||||
| Annual average growth rate | Percentage change January-June 1974 | Annual average growth rate | Percentage change January-June 1974 | |||||
| 1948–58 | 1958–73 | January-June 1973 | 1948–58 | 1958–73 | January-June 1973 | |||
| Per cent. | Per cent. | Per cent. | Per cent. | |||||
| Canada | … | … | 7·1 | 10·5 | 34·5 | 5·0 | 11·3 | 29·9 |
| United Stales | … | 6·4 | 11·7 | 41·4 | 3·5 | 9·7 | 44·6 | |
| Japan | … | … | 16·1 | 18·4 | 83·7 | 27·3 | 18·5 | 48·2 |
| Australia | … | … | 3·8 | 9·4 | 70·8 | 0·1 | 12·5 | 14·7 |
| New Zealand | … | 5·9 | 6·9 | 74·6 | 3·5 | 9·1 | -6·0 | |
| Austria | … | … | 10·7 | 13·1 | 37·7 | 16·6 | 11·9 | 49·7 |
| Belgium/Luxembourg | 4·4 | 13·8 | 42·8 | 6·1 | 14·2 | 35·6 | ||
| Denmark | … | … | 6·7 | 12·2 | 41·0 | 8·5 | 11·0 | 35·6 |
| Finland | … | … | 4·1 | 12·6 | 56·6 | 4·4 | 11·3 | 55·0 |
| France | … | … | 5·4 | 13·1 | 48·4 | 9·8 | 13·8 | 31·3 |
| German Federal Republic | … | … | 16·4 | 13·9 | 31·2 | 28·0 | 14·2 | 44·1 |
| Greece | … | … | 4·5 | 12·9 | 41·3 | 9·5 | 13·0 | 76·8 |
| Iceland | … | … | 1·9 | 10·0 | 63·5 | 0·8 | 10·4 | 20·8 |
| Ireland | … | … | 0·1 | 11·3 | 41·7 | 6·3 | 12·4 | 24·5 |
| Italy | … | … | 7·6 | 15·5 | 61·2 | 9·1 | 15·4 | 41·5 |
| Netherlands | … | 6·8 | 13·6 | 41·5 | 12·1 | 14·3 | 38·0 | |
| Norway | … | … | 5·7 | 10·9 | 50·5 | 6·0 | 13·1 | 40·9 |
| Portugal | … | … | 1·5 | 12·6 | 65·8 | 5·3 | 12·9 | 34·1 |
| Spain | … | … | 6·1 | 17·3 | 65·2 | 2·7 | 17·1 | 33·8 |
| Sweden | … | … | 5·6 | 10·5 | 50·4 | 6·5 | 12·5 | 31·9 |
| Switzerland | … | … | 3·9 | 13·6 | 32·7 | 6·8 | 12·9 | 31·4 |
| Turkey | … | … | -1·0 | 13·5 | 76·8 | 2·3 | 11·8 | 43·0 |
| United Kingdom | … | 2·5 | 8·9 | 48·1 | 3·7 | 8·1 | 25·8 | |
| Sources: | ||||||||
| 1948 and all figures for New Zealand—United Nations Statistical Yearbook and Monthly Bulletin of Statistics. | ||||||||
| 1958–1974—OECD Statistics of Foreign Trade Series A. | ||||||||