Import Controls

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Trade – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 3 November 1975.

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Photo of Dennis Canavan Dennis Canavan , Stirlingshire West 12:00, 3 November 1975

Will my right hon. Friend bear in mind that the imposition of selective import controls is the policy of the Labour Party and of the TUC? Will he also bear in mind that, particularly in the textile industry, cheap imports not only threaten the jobs of our own workers, including textile workers in my constituency and in other parts of Scotland and the North of England in particular, but are often the direct result of multinational companies exploiting cheap labour in other countries?