HC Deb 10 February 1967 vol 740 cc389-90W
Mr. Carlisle

asked the Minister of Transport whether she has yet received the report of the inspection officer into

Soviet Socialist Republics of 71 per cent., but a decline to the countries of the Common Market of 11 per cent. compared with the same period in 1965; and to what he attributes the decline in the exports to the Common Market.

Mr. Jay

Yes, although these figures relate only to leather footwear and slippers. The decline in exports to the E.E.C. is due mainly to a reduction in sales of women's shoes, a sector which is particularly sensitive to changes in fashion.

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