§ Mr. Hooleyasked the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will list in the Official Report those processed agricultural goods not granted duty-free access to the Common Market, and the main suppliers of these goods.
§ Mr. StrangTo produce a full list would take an incommensurate amount of time and effort. The vast majority of processed agricultural goods are subject to duties on import into the Community from non-preferential suppliers. However, the Community has a number of preferential arrangements. These include the Lomé Convention, which grants some 46 developing countries duty-free entry for almost all goods, including processed agricultural products; agreements with our main Mediterranean and EFTA suppliers and the Generalised Scheme of Preferences. These arrangements, together with our progressive removal of tariffs against the Six, cover a very substantial proportion of our imports of processed agricultural products.