HC Deb 22 February 1988 vol 128 c23W
Miss Emma Nicholson

To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will make a statement on the European Economic Community's endorsement of the trade agreement with Turkey.

Mrs. Chalker

Additional protocols to the EC/Turkey association agreement, consequent on Spanish and Portuguese accession, were signed in July 1987. The Commission has recently initialled, on behalf of the Community, a voluntary restraint arrangement covering imports of textiles from Turkey.