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following small (5-7%) increases in 1969 and 1970.

However these increases are partly due to the

swing everwhere towards mmf. Moreover 4/5 of this

year's increases were from non low cost sources (HK was

the only low cost supplier to export significantly

more), principally EFTA countries but also the EEC and

USA.

Interim Summation

10. We always expected that the period of disturbance

connected with the new policy would last until the

and

middle of 1972 that the market would then settle

down to better and more stable prices thanks to the

tariff. Are there new factors that seriously affect

this assessment?

What do the British industry say?

11. When the British Textile Employers Association (BTEA) saw Sir John Eden on 11 October they made the

following points:-

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