HC Deb 10 December 1969 vol 793 c128W
Mr. Kitson

asked the President of the Board of Trade, following the agreement reached in consultation with his Department by a consortium of British firms to build in four years an irrigation system in Sadoua Carabia in Romania, what agricultural commodities in value and tonnage he estimates will be imported into this country as a reciprocal part of the agreement.

Mrs. Gwyneth Dunwoody

I understand that British firms have undertaken to purchase £30 million of Romanian food and feedstuffs over the next ten years in connection with this contract. The commodities imported in any year will presumably reflect the supply and demand situation at the time.

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