Earl of Dalkeithasked the President of the Board of Trade when the full results of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade Tariff Conference will be published; and when it is proposed to make changes in the British Customs tariff resulting from this Conference and from the recent decision regarding duties on imports from European Free Trade Association countries.
§ Mr. ErrollA White Paper summarising the results of the Tariff Conference will be laid before the House. Copies of the tariff schedules setting out the new maximum tariff rates negotiated at the Conference are due to be published in Geneva on 13 th August and will be placed in the Library.
The necessary changes in the British Customs Tariff will be brought into effect on 31st October at the same time as the further reduction in the duties applied to goods of the European Free Trade Association countries which was agreed at the meeting of the E.F.T.A. Ministerial Council in Copenhagen on 22nd June. A Statutory Order providing for these changes will be laid before the House in due course.