Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade and Commerce – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 November 1961.
The value of the imports was £186 million. Import duty charged in the year ending 31st July, 1961, was a little over £2 million. The G.A.T.T. negotiations are confidential, so I cannot forecast results. It is not the policy of Her Majesty's Government to initiate changes in the tariff, apart from those made as a result of international negotiations, but we are always ready to consider applications for such changes from representative domestic interests.