Selv om De europæiske Fællesskaber havde opkrævet samtlige de egne indtægter, ville denne sats kun have været på ca. 3 %, altså helt ubetydelig i forhold til de tilsvarende pro centsatser i visse forbundsstater: Australien (50%), Canada (50%), Forbundsrepublikken Tyskland (60 %) og De forenede Stater (61 %).
Even if the European Communities had exploited the full potential of their own resources, bringing the percentage to around 3%, this would still have been negligible compared with the corresponding percentage for federations such as Australia (50%), Canada (50%), the Federal Republic of Germany (60%) and the United States of America (61%).