HC Deb 21 November 1996 vol 285 c677W
Mr. Rooney

To ask the President of the Board of Trade which countries are proposing to amend the list of textiles and clothing products currently not integrated into the normal GATT 1994 rules. [5472]

Mr. Nelson

Stage 2 of the agreed four-stage phase-out of the multi-fibre arrangement requires that on 1 January 1998, all members of the World Trade Organisation which maintain restrictions on textile and clothing imports should reintegrate into the rules of GATT 1994 products accounting for not less than 17 per cent. of each member's imports in 1990.