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much faster rate of expansion in the textile industry generally,

as follows :

U.S.A. textiles (1957-59 = 100)

151

clothing

151

E.E.C. textiles (1958 = 100)

134

U.K.

textiles (1958 = 100)

clothing

65

132

27.

The employment record, in particular, has been markedly

different in the United States, as follows :-

000's

1961

1968

Increase

U.S.A.

Textiles

893

985

92

#t

Clothing

1,215

1,417

+ 202

E.E.C.

Textiles

1,710 1,395

315

Clothing *

606

593

13

835

713

U.K.

Textiles

E5575396

17

517

Clothing

435

43

*The coverage in this case is very small

of employment in the United States

28. The graph at Annex H shows that the upward trend was only twice reversed during this period and then by a very small amount.

28.

The graph at Annex I shows that U.K. production of broad woven cotton and man-made fibre cloth (in sq. yds.) declined by

32 per cent between 1961 and 1968. The whole of the decline was

accounted for by the cotton sector: production of man-made fibre

fabrics was static. U.S. production (in linear yards) over the

same period rose by 12 per cent, but this figure masks a decline

of about 18 per cent in the cotton sector and an increase of

120 per cent in the case of man-made fibre fabrics.

Production

/in the