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Saturday, June 10, 1972
EXPORTS OF SHIRTS TO CANADA
Announcement By Commerce And Industry Department
A new system of control regarding export of shirts to Canada
will be implemented following the expiry on September 30 this year
of the present restraint arrangements.
Under the new system, only 77 per cent of the present level
of restricted trade will be subject to export control.
In addition, there will be a quantity of shirts subject to
import control in Canada, and Canadian importers will be able, within
this quantity, to import from Hong Kong or elsewhere.
Announcing this today, the Commerce and Industry Department
said that this arrangement was the result of discussions recently held
with Canadian officials.
In 1971 Canada announced the replacement of previous export
control arrangements for shirts by several countries with a system
of import control in Canada.
But Hong Kong, as a result of an export control agreement
valid until September 1972, was temporarily the exception to that treatment.
For the current year Canadian importers are restricted to
importing certain amounts, the "country reserves", from particular
countries while the balance of the Canadian global limit on shirt imports
is in a free-for-all pool. Since Hong Kong shirts did not fall within
this system, however, they could not be imported against this pool.
The Canadian