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Mr. Grylls
asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will make a statement of Government policy towards the EEC fourth draft proposal to exempt patent licence agreements from article 85 of the Treaty of Rome forbidding restrictive agreements.
| US $ million 1970=100 | ||||||||||
| Crude balance of trade in motor vehicles* | Terms of trade† | |||||||||
| United kingdom | Federal Republic of Germany | France | Japan | Italy | Iron and Steel‡ | Engineering§ | ||||
| 1952 | … | … | … | ║ | ║ | ║ | ║ | ║ | ║ | ║ |
| 1960 | … | … | … | 859 | 1,047 | 528 | ║ | 172 | ║ | ║ |
| 1967 | … | … | … | 796 | 1,645 | 364 | 400 | 345 | 108 | 104 |
| 1970 | … | … | … | 1,016 | 2,634 | 915 | 1,280 | 327 | 100 | 100 |
| 1971 | … | … | … | 1,011 | 2,995 | 1,084 | 2,304 | 428 | 103 | 101 |
| 1972 | … | … | … | 382 | 3,617 | 1,258 | 2,877 | 380 | 111 | 106 |
| 1973 | … | … | … | 264 | 5,114 | 1,570 | 3,439 | 460 | 98 | 101 |
| 1974 | … | … | … | 568 | 5,991 | 1,897 | 5,016 | 863 | 91 | 104 |
| 1975 | … | … | … | 642 | 5,899 | 2,849 | 5,852 | 1,068 | 106 | 106 |
| 1976 | … | … | … | 395 | 7,555 | 2,372 | 8,666 | 738 | 109 | 106 |
| 1977 | … | … | … | –137 | 9,100 | 3,006 | 11,253 | 692 | 100 | 114 |
| 1978 | … | … | … | –944 | 10,163 | 3,585 | 15,098 | 634 | ║ | ║ |
| * Exports fob less imports cif. Motor vehicles are taken as SITC(R) Sub-groups 732.1 to 732.7. | ||||||||||
| † United Kingdom export unit value index fob as a percentage of import unit value index cif. | ||||||||||
| ‡ SITC(R) division 67. | ||||||||||
| § Taken as SITC(R) divisions 71, 72 and 86. | ||||||||||
| ║Not available or not readily available. | ||||||||||
| Sources: | ||||||||||
| OECD Trade Series C and Microfiche. | ||||||||||
| United Kingdom Trade Statistics. | ||||||||||