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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