§ Mr. Mappasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the recent substantial increases in imports of cotton piece goods from Portugal and of man-made fibre imports from Formosa are within the recently agreed global quotas.
§ Mr. MasonPortugal is not one of the
countries to which the agreed global quotas apply. Under the international arrangement on which they depend, these quotas do not apply to textiles containing more than 50 per cent. of man-made fibres.