Analysis of Swedish trade in certain textile products
Anoraks
1965
1966 1967
1268
Production:
Cotton
702
728
703
520
Synthetic
449
666
874
800
1247
1391
1577
1330
Imports:
Cotton
151
243
453
630
Synthetip
201
274
681
1011
352
517
1134.
1641
Exports:
Cottun
45
83
102
106
t
Synthetio
29
51
108
171
74+
134
210
379
Consumption :
Cotton
898
88S 1054 1052
Synthetic
621
991
1663
1640
1519
1879
2717
2692
Imports from
Hong Kong:
Cotton
11
74+
170
137
Synthetic
93
115
314
549
1
104
189
514
386
Imports from
others:
Cotton
140
169
283
293
Synthetic
108
159
337
462
248
325
955
of which Portugal
Cotton
22
57
115
191
0
21
59
22
57
137
250
Total
Hong Kong
imports Jan/Feb 1960
1
1.69
Annex A
Portu al
Smthetic
Cotton Simthetic: Cotton Smthetic Cotton
120
33
117 126
32
91
38
· 10
138
14
1.
A year ago we agreed to the imposition of restraint an cotton anoraks at 140,000 pieces and on men's continuous synthetic anoraks at 180,000 pieces. There was a case of force margin. The cotton item was conceded like all the cotton items without serious discussion. However, in the case of synthetic anoraks, both C.R.5.1. and Industries 1 agreed throughout that there was no evidence that imports had caused injury to the domestic industry. We conceded the item because both Hong Kong and Sweden, for very differert reasons, insisted on it. Hong Kong was backed by the P.0.0. There had been a vast increase in Swedish production and the most the Swedes could claim was that an unspecified amount of stock had accumulated in manufacturers' warehouses as a result of the disruption. caused by imports.
2.
Swedish production of men's synthetic anoraks fell in 1963 in spite of the imposition of control. However, production of women's synthetic anoraks continued to rise very rapidly, as did imports. The Swedes clained that the fall in production of men's anoraks was due to (a) the lack of control on imports of mon's discontinuous (i.e. spun staple fibre) anoraks and (b) more particularly,
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