§ Sir John FarrTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry what assessment he has made of the impact on jobs in the knitwear and hosiery industry of state intervention in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia and the lifting of import controls on goods from these countries; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. SainsburyAt present, in almost half the multi-fibre arrangement knitwear and hosiery categories, no quota limits are imposed on imports from the three countries and in nearly all the remaining categories the quotas are either little used or not used at all. It is not therefore anticipated that trade liberalisation is likely to have a significant effect on knitwear and hosiery in the United Kingdom.