Shipments (Flag Discrimination)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 4 April 1955.

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Photo of Hon. Lancelot Joynson-Hicks Hon. Lancelot Joynson-Hicks , Chichester 12:00, 4 April 1955

No coal bought for import into this country in the normal way of trade is or will be subject to flag discrimination, but Her Majesty's Government have always recognised that one of the conditions of the receipt of United States aid is that 50 per cent. of any goods imported from the United States which represent aid must be moved in United States ships.