asked the Secretary of State for Industry what was the imported tonnage of steel into the United Kingdom by categories, for the years 1970 to 1978, comparing one year with another; and what was the tonnage exported from the United Kingdom for the same period.
The information is as follows:
| FINISHED STEEL PRODUCTS IMPORTS | |||||||||
1970
| 1971
| 1972
| 1973
| 1974
| 1975
| 1976
| 1977
| thousand tonnes 1978 * January—September
| |
| Ingots, blooms, billets, slabs | 1,025 | 406 | 312 | 128 | 142 | 227 | 403 | 246 | 197 |
| Bars and rods | 384 | 404 | 626 | 591 | 545 | 418 | 439 | 447 | 323 |
| Light and heavy sections | 40 | 66 | 143 | 147 | 164 | 99 | 156 | 207 | 189 |
| Hoop and strip | 31 | 50 | 70 | 75 | 172 | 106 | 71 | 84 | 50 |
| Plate and sheet (including tinplate) | 640 | 894 | 1,326 | 1,438 | 2,055 | 2,147 | 2,639 | 2,381 | 1,916 |
| Tubes and pipes | 119 | 209 | 181 | 394 | 725 | 728 | 374 | 348 | 181 |
| Other (rails, railway mats, castings and forgings) | 4 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 5 | 12 | 12 | 6 | 61* |
| Total | 2,243 | 2,033 | 2,661 | 2,778 | 3,808 | 3,736 | 4,094 | 3,719 | 2,917 |
* Figures for 1978 are provisional; most of the residual will be allocated to specific product headings when a fuller analysis is available. | |||||||||
Source:
1. Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau.
2. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise.
| FINISHED STEEL PRODUCTS EXPORTS | |||||||||
1970
| 1971
| 1972
| 1973
| 1974
| 1975
| 1976
| 1977
| thousand tonnes 1978 * January—September
| |
| Ingots, blooms, billets, slabs | 150 | 192 | 240 | 195 | 222 | 257 | 259 | 416 | 215 |
| Bars and rods | 686 | 799 | 751 | 786 | 596 | 689 | 871 | 1,195 | 923 |
| Light and heavy sections | 483 | 561 | 476 | 482 | 521 | 554 | 574 | 582 | 401 |
| Hoop and strip | 187 | 163 | 124 | 179 | 134 | 99 | 118 | 116 | 66 |
| Plate and sheet (including tinplate) | 1,735 | 2,334 | 2,307 | 1,789 | 1,113 | 842 | 1,071 | 1,359 | 1,032 |
| Tubes and pipes | 521 | 515 | 451 | 477 | 421 | 422 | 471 | 434 | 316 |
| Other (rails, railway mats, castings and forgings) | 80 | 142 | 95 | 118 | 126 | 158 | 179 | 164 | 80* |
| Total | 3,842 | 4,706 | 4,444 | 4,026 | 3,133 | 3,021 | 3,543 | 4,266 | 3,033 |
* Figures for 1978 are provisional; most of the residual will be allocated to specific product headings when a fuller analysis is available. | |||||||||
Source:
1. Iron and Steel Statistics Bureau.
2. Her Majesty's Customs and Excise.