HC Deb 25 November 1949 vol 470 c58W
Mr. Prescott

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give an assurance that in any negotiations for a Peace Treaty with Japan His Majesty's Government will press for the insertion of specific provisions designed to prevent the Japanese textile industry from again flooding British markets with goods produced by cheap sweated labour.

Mr. Bottomley

In any negotiations for a Peace Treaty with Japan, His Majesty's Government will endeavour to ensure that Japan undertakes to conform to the provisions of international conventions such as the Havana Charter for an International Trade Organisation, which provide a common standard of international commercial conduct, and to abstain from dumping and the kind of unfair practices familiar before the war.

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