§ 84. Mr. Philips Priceasked the President of the Board of Trade what undertaking has been given to the U.S.A. whereby quantitative restrictions on the import or tobacco from dollar countries cannot be made by His Majesty's Government unless similar restrictions are imposed on the import of tobacco from Empire and other non-dollar countries like Greece and Turkey.
§ Mr. BelcherThe United Kingdom's obligation under the American Loan Agreement not to discriminate, with certain special exceptions, against imports from the U.S.A. might conceivably in some circumstances prevent us from restricting imports of American tobacco unless imports of other tobacco were also restricted. This question, however, has not arisen in practice, since at present our imports from non-dollar sources are not limited by import restrictions, but by other factors, namely, the limited quantity of Empire tobacco available and the limited demand of the smoking public for Turkish tobacco.