HC Deb 06 July 1959 vol 608 c102W
Mr. Dodds-Parker

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in view of the fact that the meetings between the United Kingdom and Danish Ministers in London on 22nd and 23rd June were concerned with an exchange of views about the problems of expanding trade in agricultural products between members of the proposed free trade association of the seven countries, what are the principal agricultural products of the United Kingdom, the export of which to these countries it is hoped to expand.

Mr. Maudling

The United Kingdom is predominantly a net importer of agricultural products, but it is our hope that the establishment of a Free Trade Area of the kind discussed at Stockholm woud give opportunities for increased exports of a range of manufactured foodstuffs.