اندر جون سن المعاني الاسود
Jakarta Kukuruza and the wat
generality of imports from elsewhere is parallelled by any
other than a very few major industrial nations in the world.
If British industrialists feel that conditions in the UK are
less propitious for manufacturing here than overseas then they
are free to move elsewhere. I believe that direct exports flow
directly from overseas investment so that any extra movements
of this kind is to the benefit of British jobs at home. If British citizens dislike the British climate, their Trade Unions
or other aspects of our system, they can now take their savings
with them and work abroad without restriction. By this single
measure the British Government has imposed a discipline upon
itself which forces it to create internal tax and other conditions
for industrial and commercial enterprise which are no less
attractive than in countries overseas, and it is worth noting
that since all restrictions on capital movements were lifted
the United Kingdom's monetary reserves have risen and far from
departing overseas, British talent has started to trek home.
Furthermore the total freeing of capital movement is likely to
have an important impact upon the cross-exchange of technology
and industrial investment between the United Kingdom and the
developed nations, the newly industrialised and the developing
nations of the world - and this was one of my major themes
on my recent visit to Japan.
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The second area where we are particularly active is in
our attempts to get around the world as Ministers. The Prime
Minister, at my request, agreed to appoint a Minister for
Trade as a Minister of State within my Department to oversee
our Government trade effort under me. Already in nine months I believe that he and I have covered as many thousands of miles
as the most active salesman. Our travels have taken us to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, the United States, the Pacific Islands, Mexico, and South America, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, to South East Asia, and Japan, Korea and now Hong Kong. We do not pretend to be "high-powered salesmen". It is for British industry
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