HC Deb 05 May 1983 vol 42 c107W
Mr. Austin Mitchell

asked the Minister for Trade, further to his reply dated 15 March, Official Report, columns 77–78, concerning tariffs on United Kingdom imports of manufactures, whether he will publish in the Official Report an estimate of the level to which the tariff in each division will be reduced at the end of the Tokyo round if the reductions are implemented in full.

Mr. Peter Rees

The White Paper "General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, The Multilateral Negotiations 1973–79", Cmnd. 7724 of 1979, estimated that the average trade weighted external tariff of the European Community on industrial goods would fall to 7.5 per cent. at the end of the period of tariff reductions agreed in the Tokyo round of GATT multilateral trade negotiations — that is 1 January 1987. More detailed estimates could be provided only at disproportionate cost and would not be fully reliable.

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