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Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will circulate a table in the Official Report showing the change in United Kingdom and United States export prices for manufactures each year since 1970 and each quarter since the beginning of 1976, together with the corresponding change in the volume of United Kingdom exports to and imports from the United States of America.
Mr. Parkinson
The available price information is given in the table below. Volume figures of United Kingdom exports to and imports from the United States of America are not available in the United Kingdom statistics.
| EXPORT PRICES FOR MANUFACTURES | |||||
| Percentage change on previous period (national currencies) | |||||
| UK | USA | ||||
| 1970 | … | … | … | 7½ | 5 |
| 1971 | … | … | … | 5½ | 1½ |
| 1972 | … | … | … | 5½ | 3 |
| 1973 | … | … | … | 11 | 7½ |
| 1974 | … | … | … | 25 | 21 |
| 1975 | … | … | … | 23 | 16 |
| 1976 | … | … | … | 21 | 7 |
| 1977 | … | … | … | 18 | 4½ |
| 1978 | … | … | … | 9½ | 8 |
| 1976 Q1 | … | … | … | 5 | 2 |
| Q2 | … | … | … | 5½ | 2 |
| Q3 | … | … | … | 6 | 1 |
| Q4 | … | … | … | 6 | 3 |
| 1977 Q1 | … | … | … | 3 | — |
| Q2 | … | … | … | 4 | 1 |
| Q3 | … | … | … | 2½ | 2 |
| Q4 | … | … | … | 2 | 2½ |
| 1978 Q1 | … | … | … | 1½ | 1 |
| Q2 | … | … | … | 2½ | 1 |
| Q3 | … | … | … | 3 | 2½ |
| Q4 | … | … | … | 3 | 4 |
| 1979 Q1 | … | … | … | 3 | NA |
| Q2 | … | … | … | 1 | NA |
| Q3 | … | … | … | 2½ | NA |
| NA: Not Available | |||||