§ 92. Mr. Biggs-Davisonasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will give an assurance that, despite the United Nations Commission for Trade and Development proposal to extend trade preference to all developing countries, Her Majesty's Government in the United Kingdom will maintain a first preference for imports from Commonwealth countries and territories.
§ Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody:As my right hon. Friend has said in his speech at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development now meeting at New Delhi, the relation between a future generalised system of preferences and the existing system under which many developing countries already benefit raises most intricate questions, on which the countries concerned will have to make their own judgments in the light of the details of whatever general scheme emerges from the U.N.C.T.A.D. conference.