Skip to main content

Clothing Exports

Volume 975: debated on Wednesday 12 December 1979

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

asked the Secretary of State for Industry whether he will circulate in the Official Report a table showing the volume and value of clothing produced and exported by the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, the United States of America and Japan in

TABLE 1
INDEX OF PRODUCTION OF THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY
(1975=100) 1979
19521960196719721978First quarter*
72·181·182·194·1106·1106·7
* Seasonally adjusted
Estimates of the value of the sales of the industry were:
TABLE 2
VALUE OF SALES BY THE CLOTHING INDUSTRY
£ million 1979
19521960196719721978First quarter*
5236547471,1232,711733
* Not seasonally adjusted
Source: 1972 Census of Production; Other years—estimates based on Annual Censuses of Production.
Figures for other countries are not readily available.
The volume and value of exports of clothing, including hosiery and knitted clothing, were:
TABLE 3
VALUE OF EXPORTS OF CLOTHING*
£ million 1979
1960196719721978First quarter
United Kingdom33·664·3144·4670·0144·5
German Federal Republic35·891·7262·41,095·4
France60·999·1316·3893·0
Italy58·5182·9488·51,723·5
United States of America34·565·699·7352·6
Japan78·8121·7171·6249·5
* Standard International Trade Classification (Revised 2) Division 84.
Not available.
Figures for 1952 are not available.
Sources: United Kingdom—Overseas Trade Statistics.
Other countries—OECD series 'C' except for Japan in 1960–United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics.
Sterling figures for countries other than the United Kingdom converted from dollars at annual average exchange rates.
TABLE 4
VOLUME OF EXPORTS OF CLOTHING*
'000 tonnes
1960196719721978
United Kingdom53·8
German Federal Republic9·319·842·659·8
France19·415·839·345·9
Italy13·441·585·5139·1
Japan61·863·233·0
* Standard International Trade Classification (Revised 2) Division 84.
Not available.
Figures for 1952 and 1979 to date are not available.
Figures for the USA are not available.
Source: OECD series 'C', except for Japan in 1960–United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics.

1952, 1960, 1967, 1972, 1978 and this year to date.

The volume of production, as measured by the index of production, of the United Kingdom made-up clothing industry—Order XV, excluding footwear, of the Standard Industrial Classification—was;