HC Deb 15 July 1947 vol 440 cc22-3W
60. Mr. Thornton-Kemsley

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will withdraw the existing regulation which stipulates that South African buyers of British knitting wools who wish to bay botany wool must take a stated proportion of their requirements in crossbred yarn, since this stipulation is likely to result in the loss of the South African market to British exporters.

Mr. Belcher

There is no such regulation. For supply reasons the allocations to United Kingdom exporters have to include both types of yarn, but the exporters are free to sell them as they choose.