0 A country's trade figures are a record of how much the country has paid for goods that it has bought from other countries, compared with how much it has been paid for goods that it has sold to other countries: --
1 the value of a country's exports and imports in a particular period: --
This year, as far as the trade figures can be computed, we shall have an adverse balance with them of £74 million.
I regret that the necessary export trade figures are not yet available to enable us to provide the information requested for 1981.
But the next day the published trade figures showed a gap, unprecedented for a period of one month, of £120 million.
Recent trade figures have been distorted by a number of special factors, notably the effects of the coal miners strike.
As for the point about the trade figures, of course it will be possible to discuss the economic situation, yet again, soon.
Visible trade figures on a balance of payments basis are not available for trade with individual countries.
Will not the new arrangements for monetary compensatory amounts make quite a difference to the trade figures?
With today's trade figures, we are reminded also of the need to look again at the possibilities of import saving.
