Opsvinget i 1976, som kun varede kort i Europa, afspejler sig i udviklingen i samhandelen: 11% stigning i mængde i 1976, 4% i 1977 og 6% i 1979.
The recovery in 1976 and the subsequent decline in EEC economic activity caused an 11% growth in the volume of trade in 1976, but only 4% in 1977 and in 1978, and 7% in 1979.