Exports

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asked the Minister for Trade whether he will publish in the Official Report a table showing for each of the countries listed in table 6.8 of the Employment Gazette the export price of manufactures in December 1981 as a percentage of the 1975 price together

PRICE OF EXPORT MANUFACTURES
Main Manufacturing Countries
1975=100 in US dollar terms
	UK	US	France	Germany (F.R.)	Italy	Netherlands	Belgium
1970	56	63	51	48	55	51	54
1971	60	64	53	55	59	53	55
1972	65	66	58	60	63	60	61
1973	71	71	72	75	70	72	75
1974	85	86	82	88	85	91	93
1975	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
1976	97	107	98	102	93	96	100
1977	112	112	105	110	106	106	108
1978	136	121	121	131	117	124	124
1979	164	140	141	147	137	140	143
1980	201	153	157	156	158	153	157
1981	^*	172	136	^*	^*	^*	^*
Q4·1980	210	161	155	152	157	149	^*
Q1 1981	^*	165	144	136	151	139	130
Q2 1981	^*	169	134	127	141	130	131
Q3 1981	^*	174	132	121	^*	126	^*
Q4 1981	181	179	136	^*	^*	^*	^*

	Sweden	Switzerland	Canada	Japan	Denmark	Austria	Norway
1970	48	46	70	56	49	50	46
1971	50	50	72	58	52	53	48
1972	57	55	74	65	57	57	50
1973	68	70	79	79	71	69	60
1974	83	84	94	101	86	87	81
1975	100	100	100	100	100	100	100
1976	104	102	109	99	101	97	96
1977	111	108	109	108	110	105	103
1978	121	140	113	131	123	123	112
1979	142	154	125	141	141	139	125
1980	164	169	142	150	153	147	146
1981	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
Q4 1980	166	170	145	159	153	143	146
Q1 1981	^*	153	151	165	145	^*	141
Q2 1981	^*	142	151	159	138	120	132
Q3 1981	^*	140	154	154	132	^*	131
Q4 1981	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*	^*
^* Not available.

Volume 22: debated on Monday 19 April 1982