§ 80. Mr. Leaveyasked the Secretary of State for the Colonies why he has imposed a ban upon the export of eight categories of cotton cloth from Hong Kong to the United States of America.
§ Mr. MaudlingThe Government of Hong Kong announced on the 2nd March that it had ceased to issue export licences for the time being in view of a request from the United States Government, under the short-term G.A.T.T. Cotton Textile Arrangements, that exports of these items should be restrained, as they were considered, in the view of the United States Government, to be disrupting the American market.