§ Mr. Joplingasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food whether he will seek to renegotiate those international agreements which prevent him from imposing a tariff on imports of meat from the Republic of Ireland, equivalent to the export subsidy paid on that meat by the Government of Ireland.
§ Mr. PeartNone of our international trading agreements would prevent us from imposing a countervailing duty on subsidised exports from the Irish Republic, provided that they were causing or threatening material injury to the industry concerned in this country. We should also have to be satisfied that it was in the national interest to impose such a duty.