§ Mr. JESSONasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that certain British tyre manufacturers are closing down the working time in their establishments to two shifts of four days per week owing to the competition of foreign cheap tyre manufacturers who send their tyres into this country duty-free while British manufacturers are so heavily taxed that they cannot compete with them and maintain the present rates of wages and hours of labour; whether this unfair competition is akin to dumping, seeing that it has the same effect by reducing wages and causing unemploy- 647W ment; and whether he can see his way to take immediate action so as to prevent further unemployment and lowering of wages in the British rubber industry?
§ Sir R. HORNEI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade to the hon. Member for the Wrekin Division of Shropshire (Mr. Palmer) yesterday.