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48.
Mr. Michael Morris
asked the Secretary of State for Trade if he has any proposals to amend the Copyright Acts.
Mr. Eyre
The Whitford committee to consider the law on copyright and designs, which reported in 1977, made a great many recommendations for legislative changes covering all aspects of this very complex area of law. The Government are studying these recommendations in the light of the many comments they have received on the report, with a view to putting forward some proposals for public discussion in due course.
| UNITED KINGDOM TRADE IN MANUFACTURES* | |||||
| EXCLUDING ERRATICS † | |||||
| Indices1975 = 100 | |||||
| OTS basis | |||||
| Exports | Imports | ||||
| Volume | Unit Value | Volume | Unit Value | ||
| 1967 | … | 61 | N/A | 49 | N/A |
| 1968 | … | 69 | N/A | 56 | N/A |
| 1969 | … | 78 | N/A | 59 | N/A |
| 1970 | … | 79 | 52 | 66 | 53 |
| 1971 | … | 86 | 55 | 71 | 53 |
| 1972 | … | 86 | 58 | 85 | 55 |
| 1973 | … | 97 | 64 | 103 | 67 |
| 1974 | … | 104 | 80 | 110 | 87 |
| 1975 | … | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
| 1976 | … | 109 | 120 | 110 | 123 |
| 1977 | … | 115 | 141 | 119 | 142 |
| 1978 | … | 117 | 155 | 135 | 150 |
| 1979 | … | 117 | 169 | 159 | 161 |
| N/A not available | |||||
| * SITC sections 5 to 8 | |||||
| † These are defined as ships and North Sea installations (together comprising SITC (Rev 2 793). aircraft (792) and precious stones (667) | |||||