§ Mr. Joplingasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give details of the foodstuffs which the United Kingdom has been committed to take in the recent trade agreement with Rumania.
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§ Mrs. Gwyneth DunwoodyI assume that the hon. Member is referring to contracts which have recently been signed between certain British firms and Rumanian organisations under which British firms will supply irrigation equipment and machinery to Rumania and other British firms have undertaken to purchase foodstuffs from Rumania. The foodstuffs involved are grain, meat and meat products, fresh fruit such as peaches, melon and grapes, fruit pulp, peppers and aubergines, all of which may already be imported without quantitative restriction under existing arrangements; small quantities of other foodstuffs will be imported within the prescribed quotas.