1967.
1968
1969.
Produs tion
3,472
2.317
2,050
Exports
554
512
511
Imports
11,147
10,050
11.277
of whichs-
Hong Kong
2,152
2,845
2,993
UK
363
388
488
Finland
202
218
· 433
Portugal
225
283
365
This shows that there was a heavy fall in production between 1967 and 1969, but imports and exports were virtually statio. Consumption declined. However, the position would almost certainly look very different, as regarda both production and imports if the continuous filament and rayon sweaters ware included. We have no production figurss, but the import figures for the first nine months of 1969 ware, in thousandss=
BAB
Continuous
X & B
Y&G
TAG
Rayon
Continuous
Rayon
Total
252
161
262
324
21
17
90
247
Portugal
Hong Kong
104
7
57
22
It looks as if here again the real objective is to restrict imports from Portugal, unless there has been a surge in imports of men's and boys' continuous maf shirts which have been wrongly classified as sweaters.
Shirts
1. The Swedes have given us figures for production and trade in knitted cotton shirts, woven cotton shirts, discontinuous synthetic shirts (ie polyester/cotton) and (apparently) all shirts. By subtracting the first three from the total, we get the following for continuous synthetis (mostly warp-knitted xylon) and rayon (inaluding polymmsic) and knitted discontinuous shirts3