§ Sir John Farrasked the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what steps he is taking to seek to increase the accessibility of markets in Russian and Indonesia to United Kingdom exports of textiles and clothing.
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§ Mr. Alan ClarkIt is the Government's and the Community's intention to use every occasion to press the case for opening up these markets to a wide range of our goods. The opening up of markets—in particular of the more advanced developing countries—will be a major United Kingdom objective in the forthcoming Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the GATT. In the MFA negotiations the Community has agreed that positive account should be taken of the degree of market openness of supplier countries.