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United Kingdom's Total Imports of Cotton Textiles

(Value in HK$'000)

Table 1

1965

1966

1967

1968

Imports from

Value

%

Value

%

Value

%

Velue

E.E.C.

258,890

Belgium & Luxembourg

104.840

17.8

7.2

France

48,895 3.4

91,510 42,861

238,645 15.9

6.1

249,131 14.7

91,355 5.4

228,972 12.0

78,550

4.1

2.9

42,164 2.5

40,487

2.1

West Germany

38,495 2.7

41,986

2.8

49,438

$2.9

39,596

2.1

Italy

23,925 1.6

21,393

104

23,313

1.4

21,586

1.1

Netherlands

42,735

2.9

40,895

2.7

42,861

2.5

48,753

2.6

E.F.T.A.

Austria,

111,439

26,587 1.8

7.7

Denmark

3,051

0.2

162,106 10.8 27,964 1.9

3,028 0.2

Finland

1,354

0.1

2,160

0.1

3,954

241,948 14.3

37,221 2.2

5,360 0.3

0.2

259,757

48,244 2.5

6,999

13.7

0.4

5,139 0.3

Norway

2,188

0.2

2,126

0.1

2,720

0.2

3,091

0.2

Sweden

9,394 0.7

11,405

0.8

21,713

1.3

23,125

1.2

Portugal

36,901

2.5

78,625

5.2

115,674 6.8

101,069 5.3

Switzerland

31,964

2.2

36,798

2.5

55,306 3.3

72,090 3.8

Canada

42,975

3.0

36,512

204

53,854 3.2

80,683 4.2

U.S.A.

22,593 1.6

21,839

1.5

31,964 1.9

49,056 2.6

Spain

34,615 2.4

Other countries

980,410 67.5

.

25,502 1.7

25,199 1.5 1,014,972 67.7 1,087,020 64.4

31,718

1,252,915

1.7

65.8

Total

1,450,922 100.0 1,499,576 100.0

1,689,116 100.0

1,903,101

100.0

Source: GATT Paper COT/STAT/135

Exchange rates: US$1 = HK$5.714 for 1965-1967; US$1 = HK$6.06 for 1968

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