§ Mr. Nicholas Wintertonasked the Secretary of State for Trade what is the 1978 quota for yarn from Turkey under the current multi-fibre arrangement; what percentage of this yarn has been imported already; and what was the 1977 quota.
§ Mr. MeacherThere is no quota on imports of yarn from Turkey in 1978 under the multi-fibre arrangement. The EEC Commission negotiated an understanding with the Turkish textile industry last year that its exports of cotton yarn to the United Kingdom in 1978 would not exceed 3,240 tonnes. Unfortunately, this understanding was not observed, and in September the Commission published a regulation suspending further imports into the United Kingdom in 1978. Total United Kingdom imports from Turkey in the first nine months of 1978 were 164 per cent. of the restraint level. The 1977 quota was 3,367 tonnes.