§ Sir H. Harrisonasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what action the Government propose to take in relation to the United Kingdom customs duties on beef and veal following the European Economic Community Finance Ministers' decision to suspend 50 per cent. of the common customs tariff on beef and veal.
§ Mr. PriorWe are consulting our major preferential overseas suppliers about suspending our import duties on fresh, chilled and frozen beef and veal. We are proposing to suspend totally because the incidence of our full rates of duty is less than the cut which the EEC has decided to make in the common Customs tariff.