§ Mr. Trippierasked the Secretary of State for Trade what assessment of the contribution the recently concluded round of MTNS made towards liberalising 273W quotes and other physical restrictions on the import of footwear into GATT member countries.
§ Mr. ParkinsonFootwear was largely excluded from the scope of the Tokyo round of multilateral trade negotiations. This means that tariffs and quantitative restrictions were retained on items of interest to the British footwear manufacturing industry. At the same time I am of course well aware of the difficulties caused to our exporters by other countries' trade barriers, and will continue to press both bilaterally and through
1977 1978 1979 Imports: Weight* Valued† Weight* Valued† Weight* Valued† Flat glass 155.3 29.6 138.8 29.0 185.7 42.0 Glass containers 127.5 30.6 129.4 31.8 154.7 36.7 Exports: Flat glass 108.1 26.2 134.9 31.4 106.3 27.1 Glass containers 74.4 14.9 73.2 20.2 58.2 19.4 * Thousand tonnes. † Imports—£ million cif; Exports—£ million fob. Source: Overseas Trade Statistics of the United Kingdom—flat glass: SITC Sub-groups 664.3–5; carboys, bottles, jars, pots, tubular containers and similar containers of glass, and stoppers and other closures of glass: SITC Item 665.11.