Libyan ban on U.K.
j (N ZP A -Reuter—Copyright' LONDON. Jan. 3. I Libya has apparently (banned the import of a wide |range of British consumer ■goods, ranging from (children's toys to bicycles land cigarettes, worth between £sm and £lom a year. I A Foreign Office spokesman admitted today that the Libyan Government had given no official explanation for its refusal, since November, to grant import licences for these consumer goods, < which include luxury items, lin spite of Britain’s request I for clarification. The spokesman emphasised that the apparent ban (did not cover the export of British capital goods to Libya, which sells oil and a total of about £l4om worth of merchandise to Britain each year. Total British exports to Libya are valued at about £som a year.
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Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33424, 4 January 1974, Page 9
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