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Mr. Austin Mitchell
asked the Secretary of State for Trade whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing the quantity and average value of imports of 659·51 tufted carpets of man-made fibre materials from the European Economic Community, Belgium and the United States of America in 1979 and the estimated amount of duty payable in each case, the quantity and average value of exports of such carpets to other European Economic Community countries, France and Australia; and what evidence he has of restrictive trading practices in the European Economic Community carpet industry.
| TUFTED CARPETS, RUGS, MATS AND MATTING OF MAN-MADE TEXTILE MATERIALS (SITC(R2) 659.51) | |||||
| IMPORTS (JANUARY-DECEMBER 1979) | |||||
| Tonnes | Thousand square metres | Average value per tonne (£'s cif) | Average value per thousand square metres (£'s cif) | ||
| EEC | … | 21,533 | 10,557 | 1,396 | 2,848 |
| United States of America | … | 10,323 | 4,705 | 1,297 | 2,846 |
| Belgium-Luxembourg | … | 6,342 | 3,493 | 1,250 | 2,269 |
| EXPORTS (JANUARY-DECEMBER 1979) | |||||
| Tonnes | Thousand square metres | Average value per tonne (£'s fob) | Average value per thousand square metres (£'s fob) | ||
| EEC | … | 25,598 | 13,595 | 1,196 | 2,252 |
| France | … | 2,927 | 1,458 | 1,053 | 2,115 |
| Australia | … | 1,554 | 752 | 1,075 | 2,220 |