ECONOMIC DEFENSE ADVISORY COMMITTEE EAST-WEST TRADE QUESTIONS IN PARLIAMENT

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EDAC D-36/120
February 11, 1958
ECONOMIC DEFENSE ADVISORY COMMITTEE
East-West Trade Questions in Parliament
Attached for your information are excerpts from Hansard
on East-West trade questions raised recently in Parliament. These
excerpts have been provided by the American Embassy in London.
Distribution:
ED List Parts I thru VI
Irving I. Kramer
Executive Secretary
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-Oral Answer, Nov. 12 1957
Dec. 112, con't.
Trade With Albania
3. Mr. Turner asked the President of
the Board of Trade if he will supply
details of imports .from, Albania: and ex-
ports from the United-- Kingdom to
Albania during the past three years.
Sir D. Eccles: Trade with Albania is
very small. With permission, I will cir-
culate details in the OFFICIAL' REPORT.
Following are the details:
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1954
1955
1956
Imports:
Chromium ore ...
13.2
Total
13,2
Exports:
Cotton waste
' ,0?8
Pneumatic tyres
1.8
^
Machinery other
than electric
0.6
Scientific
instruments
0.7
0.3
neg.
Other goods ...
0.1
0.8
1.6
Total
3.4
1.1
22
Re-exports ...
Written Answer
Nov. 12, 1957
EXPORTS TO COMMUNIST
COUNTRIES
97. Mr. Jay asked the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs whether he will now
review the strategic restrictions on United
Kingdom exports to the Union of Soviet
Socialist Republics and other Communist
. countries.
Mr. Ian Harvey: The strategic controls
on trade with the Soviet Union and other
Communist countries are kept under con-
tinuous review by Her Majesty's Gov-
ernment in conjunction with their partners
and allies in the Consultative Group.
These controls are adjusted from time to
time by mutual agreement as circum-
stances require.
:Oral Answer, Dec. 12
. 1957
Trade wills China (Civil Aircraft)
lash 'Le
19. Mr. Collins asked the President of
the Board of Trade if he is aware that
the Chinese Trade Mission inquired into
the possibility of purchasing civilian aero-
planes of British manufacture; what in-
quiries he has received regarding the sale
of such aircraft to China; and, in view
of the present run down in the aircraft
industry, if he will remove existing restric-
tions on the sale of new and second-
hand airplanes.
Sir D. Eccles: Yes, Sir: and I know
that the British civil aircraft industry
would like to sell to China. Any excep-
tion to the present embargo. however,
would have to be cleared internationally
in the Paris Consultative Group. J cannot
yet say whether we shall think it right
to put any such proposal to our Allies.
Mr. Collins : In his further delibera-
tions on this subject. will the right hon.
Gentleman bear in mind that Far Eastern
airlines are not equipped solely with
Russian planes. and so other countries
must be supplying them? If D.E.A.
wants to sell some Elizabethans why
should it be frustrated? Will the right
hon. Gentleman use his utmost endeas
yours to ensure that this country's aircraft
industry is placed at least on terms of
equality with the aircraft industries of
other countries?
Sir D.'Eecles am very anxious to do
so, but we shall have to discuss this
mattetdwith Otir Allies.
Mr. Denilale : I understood the Minis-
ter to say that he would not put forward
proposals. Will he at least promise that
-he will pureforWard proposals although
it is realised that they have to be dis-
cussed, -considered, and agreed upon
finally with other countries?
Sir D. Leeks: It depends on whether
it is thought that there are possibilities
of using the aircraft for military purposes.
Mr. Jay: Can there, really be any
danger in selling second-hand civilian
aircraft to China at present?
Oral Answer Jan. 27,
1958
Or;i1
28, lc,r, 8
CHINA
Trade
27. Mr. Collins asked the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs if he will review
the present restrictions MT trade with
China ; and if, in particular, he Will lift
the present restrictions on the sale pf new
and second-hand civilian aeroplanes.
Mr. Ian Harvey: I would refer the hon.
Member to the reply which I gave to the
right hon. Member for Battersea. North
(Mr. Jay) on 12th November, 1957.
As to the second part of the. Question.
I have nothing to add to the reply which
my right hon. Friend the President of the
Board of Trade gave to the hon. Mem-
ber on 12th December, 1957.
Mr. : Is the Joint Under-Secre-
tary aware that the reply from the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade, whilst
admitting the charge, did not promise to
do anything about it? Is he further aware
that other N,A.T.O. countries are still
selling prohibited goods to (lima and to
ether Communist countries? Does he not
think it is time that. he looked into the
matter and took positive steps to see that
British traders are no longer suffering
these handicaps as compared with our
foreign competitors?
Mr. Harvey: I do not admit that there
is any question of a charge arising out
of this. As I have already said, this is a
question that is regularly reviewed, and
that is the position at the moment.
Aircraft Exports (Embargo List) eied4
2. Mr. Willey asked the President of
the Board of Trade whether he will re-
consider the position of aircraft in rela-
tion to the embargo list of exports.
, Sir D. Eccles : I have nothing to add
to the reply which 1, gave, to the hon.
Member for Shoreditch and Finsbury
(Mr. Collins) on 12th December.
Mr. Wiley in view of the difficulties
of the aircraft industry and in view of the
changed circumstances in the use of air-
craft for military purposes, will the right ? -
hon. Gentleman keep this matter under
lively review?
Sir D. Eccles: Yes, Sir.
Written Answer,
Jan. 28, 1958
Trade with China
20. Mr. Ellis Stahl asked the President
of the Board of Trade why our exports
to China have not increased at least as
greatly as to other- countries ; what are
the prospects ; and what action is being
taken to increase our exports to China.:
Sir D. Eccles: Our exports and re-,
exports to China in 1957 were 13 per-
cent. greater than in 1956. The corre-
sponding percentage for all destinations
was 4.-2 per cent. On the last part of the
Questioa, I would refer the hon. Member
to the remarks made by the Parliamentary'
Secretary to the Board of Trade in the
Adjournment debate on 3rd December. -
last. The prospects for an increase in our
exports to China appear quite goad.
. .
Exports to Communist Countries
Miss Burton asked the President of the
Board of Trade what alterations have
been made during the past six months to
the list of strategic goods and materials
banned for export to Communist coun-
tries ; and if he will publish the current
list in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
Sir D. Eccles: Apart from Minor tech-
nical amendments to the definitions of
measuring apparatus. attenuators and high
speed cameras already under controlethe
only changes have been to include cer-
tain -types of printed circuit equipment,
centrifugal testing apparatus .and servo-
mechanisms which have a military appli-
cation. The list of embargoed goods was
published in the Board of Trade Journal
on the 7th June, 1957, and amendments
were issued in the journal on the 2nd
August, 1957, and 3rd January, 1958.
I am sending pzicopiesgto ?a[lie hon. Lady.
Fair
Mr. Lewis asked the President of the
Board of Trade if he is aware that the
German Democratic Republic are to hold
their annual trade fair at Leipzie, iii
March ; and whether he will urranee to
have representatives from his Department
in attendance.
Sir D. Eccles: Provided the Soviet
authorities will arida LI,. neces:dtry visits,
officials tot British stags in Germany will
attend the Fair in March as they did last
year, hut in an informal capacii v, since
lier Majesty's Government do not recog-
nise the German authorities in the Soviet
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