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In 1988 total net private sector invisible earnings were £12.1bn.

A recent survey suggests a good future for the UK's invisible earnings.

The invisible earnings column however recorded the award of knight bachelor for the chairman.

Trade gap narrows despite cut in invisible earnings.

On this basis, Britain was the world's biggest generator of invisible earnings, and has probably remained so this year.

UK overseas travel and tourism contribution to invisible earnings (July).

Linked to this but not directly invisible earnings is another £1.9 billion paid to British Carriers.

The UK is the world's second largest recipient of invisible earnings after the US.

To many, invisible earnings are often just associated with the banking and other financial and insurance services provided by institutions in the City of London.

Such earnings are little appreciated outside the specialist areas of business such as finance and insurance which directly contribute to invisible earnings.

The volume of the UK's resulting 'invisible earnings' is shown for 1987 in Table 2.6.

C&W claims to account for 7 per cent of UK invisible earnings.

For services to the UK Knowledge Economy and Invisible Earnings.

Nor will I mention the invisible earnings that the Daily Mail do not count in their back of the envelope type economic assessments.

Djibouti's unfavourable balance of trade is offset partially by invisible earnings such as transit taxes and harbour dues.

Invisible earnings for the month are projected to have been £100million, while their contribution in October has been revised down from £300million to the same level.

Above all, the balance took no account of the invisible earnings from the thriving Scottish carrying trade from the Baltic to the Caribbean.

An enlarged trade deficit was more than offset by remittances, capital inflows and invisible earnings in 1989 creating a balance-of-payments surplus of Bel$22,700,000.

Invisible trade would record international buying and selling of services, and sometimes would be grouped with transfer and factor income as invisible earnings.

LAST month's improvement in Britain's huge current account deficit was achieved despite a reduction in projections about the size of the country's invisible earnings.

Globally, the teaching of English is worth 6 billion a year; in Britain alone it is the sixth largest source of invisible earnings, worth 500 million a year.

He had long been interested in Britain's "invisible earnings" and in 1965 published a seminal work, The City in the World Economy, the fruit of several years of research.

In particular, the apparent success in the field of invisible earnings may well be revealed after more careful investigation to be an outstanding case of private gain achieved at the expense of considerable social cost.

In 1984 Patrick Pery, 6th Earl of Limerick had become Chairman of the organisation by which time invisible earnings were accounting for a third of the UK's earnings.

It was largely the idea of Cyril Kleinwort who realised that the government was paying much attention to the UK's balance of trade in goods, but little to the UK's invisible earnings from services.

Bill was the natural choice to head it, later becoming director and then deputy chairman of the permanent committee on invisible exports (1968-87).

At the same time, they were prudent and understanding men in a commercial sense, who knew the value and necessity of invisible exports.

This has been undesirable, but not of critical importance because our income from invisible exports has made good the difference.

The overseas earning capacity of banking and insurance are referred to as 'invisible exports'.

The current-account deficit narrowed to £192m ($377m) in February, thanks to falling imports and rising invisible exports.

The City of London is important to the invisible exports of this country, and we cannot allow scandals such as those that have happened in the past.

The idea of fraternity and how to organize it was one of 19th-century Europe's invisible exports to the New World.

To counter-balance any shortcomings on the domestic front claims have frequently been made about the major contribution which financial services rendered to the economy through invisible exports.

Proponents of this view claim that if we counted these invisible exports, which they call "dark matter," much of the U.S. trade deficit would disappear.

There were probably invisible exports too: exports of technical skill and artistry, exports of medicine and magic.

However, for a variety of reasons, income from invisible exports has failed to keep pace with expenditure on physical imports, resulting in an overall deficit throughout this period.

They are 'invisible investments', just as earnings of foreign exchange by the sale of banking, insurance and other services to foreigners are described as 'invisible exports'.

He was Chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board 1979-1983, and Chairman of the British Invisible Exports Council from 1975 to 1991.

(4) Invisible exports (funds received from sources outside the Seychelles) including, pensions and allotments to retired British expatriates, bank transfers from abroad, and miscellaneous purchases,), Rs.

Not sure of the validity of these figures but I think you'll find that £70 billion is about 20% of total invisible exports and about 12% of the actual total.

John Orr (1953) coined the term "invisible exports" to describe how French forme, ouverte, and courir borrowed the sports meanings of English form, open, and run.

Despite an 8 percent drop in its merchandise trade deficit, Britain reported a larger-than-expected deficit in its current account, which includes earnings from such invisible exports as insurance and other financial services.

A deficit on the current account, which also includes services and invisible exports, meanwhile fell to 0.9 billion marks from a provisional 4.8 billion marks in February, the federal statistical office, which published the figures, said.

Major's proposals, based on a paper presented in May by the British Invisible Exports Council, were designed to apply to the medium-term future, after completion of Stage 1 of the Delors plan.

But as Lord Limerick, chairman of the British Invisible Exports Council, points out in the council's latest annual report, British investors appear unusally skilled at building up, and generating earnings from, overseas portfolios.

Today, the barge docks in Kuala Lumpar where Sir Peter Carey, chairman of Morgan Grenfell, will trumpet the merits of the City on behalf of the British Invisible Exports Council.

British Invisibles itself originated in the Committee on Invisible Exports, set up in April 1968 by the Bank of England and then became the British Invisible Exports Council.

He was well equipped and well positioned for the task, having served for 10 years as the financial editor of The Times of London and for 20 at the head of the intriguingly named British Invisible Exports Council.

Britain's lag in other fields deepened her reliance on invisible exports (such as banking, insurance and shipping services) to offset a merchandise trade deficit dating from the beginning of commercial liberalization in 1813, and thereby keep her "out of the red."

From the Radcliffe Report [1959]onwards, moreover, figures have been produced to show the value of their contribution; and over the period invisible exports from the financial sector have been cast in the role of saviour of the balance of payments.

Many thousands of foreign students are attracted to the town every year, an important form of invisible trade.

Japan's invisible trade deficit was 46 billion dollars in 1992, of which tourism accounted for about a half.

Exports, including invisible trade, increased by 6.7 percent.

Moreover, the major source of under-recording on the balance of payments up to 1949 was invisible trade.

Though the invisible trade surplus has been marked down, there was encouraging news for the Government yesterday on the visible trade deficit.

The European Community has recognized that differences in national product standards within Europe have created invisible trade obstacles.

The 'invisible trade' represents the UK's overseas earnings from, for example, banking and financial services and tourism.

Mr. Pickens says his fight with Koito is about invisible trade barriers.

LEAD: Britain recorded a deficit in its so-called invisible trade in the last three months of 1989, the Government said today.

The United States had an invisible trade surplus of 57 billion dollars while France's surplus is services was 19 billion dollars.

This represents 12.6 of the world's total invisible trade and significantly for the UK, invisibles contributed £13 billion more than visible trade earnings.

Japan's invisible trade deficit, which includes the money Japanese spend as tourists overseas, ballooned to $15.93 billion in 1989 from $11.26 billion in 1988.

Invisible trade would record international buying and selling of services, and sometimes would be grouped with transfer and factor income as invisible earnings.

Japan's invisible trade account posted a record deficit of $22.59 billion in 1990 because transport costs rose and more than 10 million Japanese went abroad, the official said.

The April provisional current account figure broke down to a 178.5 million dollar trade deficit, a 103.8 invisible trade deficit and a 24.4 million dollars surplus in transfers.

Officials said Japan's trade surplus in goods continued to shrink in July while there was a large deficit in invisible trade, which includes transactions in insurance, shipping, tourism and services.

The white paper also notes that while Japan has been accumulating record trade surpluses, it is also the country with the biggest deficit in invisible trade - services such as shipping and tourism.

Visible trade is defined as goods that are actually shipped and sold, as opposed to invisible trade, which is defined as payments for services such as insurance, shipping, banking and dividends.

On invisible trade relations between Mesopotamian cities during the third millennium B.C., The Professional Geographer 53 (2001), 374-383 (with A. Bossuyt and L. Broze).

The visible trade deficit of $:1.16 billion was offset by an estimated surplus of $:600 million in so-called invisible trade, including shipping, banking and tourism, the Trade and Industry Department said today.

"It looks like an invisible trade barrier to me," said Dr. W. N. Broatch, the vice president of business development for BASF Structural Materials Inc., which is based in Charlotte, N.C. "We've got something better, and we can't sell it."