§ 2. Mr. Hurdasked the President of the Board of Trade if he has taken note of the terms of the recent trade pact between Denmark and the Argentine by which Denmark supplies milking machinery and the Argentine supplies cattle cake; and what steps he is taking to provide continuing opportunities for British manufacturers to supply milking machinery to the Argentine.
§ Mr. H. WilsonI understand that the commercial agreement recently concluded between Argentina and Denmark includes lists of the goods which each country may acquire from the other. It is true that animal feedingstuffs are mentioned among the various goods for the purchase of which facilities will be afforded to Denmark, and milking machinery is similarly mentioned among the goods for the purchase of which facilities will be afforded to Argentina, though there is no suggestion of the sales being linked together. As to the second part of the Question, the desire of United Kingdom manufacturers to supply milking machinery to the Argentine will certainly be borne in mind in the course of the negotiations shortly to take place with the Argentine Government, as mentioned by my hon. Friend the Economic Secretary to the Treasury on 27th January in reply to a Question by the hon. and gallant Member for the New Forest and Christchurch (Colonel Crosthwaite-Eyre).