§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will adopt a quota licensing system in place of the "Greyhound" system for the import of newsprint into the United Kingdom; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. MeacherBenefit of the tariff quota is already confined, by the end-use control operated by Her Majesty's Customs and Excise, to newsprint imported for newspapers and periodicals not primarily devoted to advertising. I see no grounds for attempting to confine benefit of the quota to particular importers or publishers. Moreover, it would be impossible to be certain that the publishers who failed to get allocations sufficient to meet their needs were those who were failing to buy United Kingdom produced newsprint.