§ 137. Mr. Thorntonasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that imports of cotton and man-made fibre cloths in January, 1967, were the highest on record; and if he will hasten steps 299W to establish a textiles imports commission or committee.
§ Mr. JayThe announcement in May last year of the removal of the Temporary Import Charge in November resulted in a steady decline in textile imports up to that month and a rise thereafter. Imports in the three months to January, 1967, were in fact nearly 40 million square yards less than in the first three months of 1966.