Trade with Chile
Sir—Three correspondents have written recently deploring the F.O.L.’s ban on trade with Chile, and all three mentioned $lOO million as the potential for such trade. That figure is a gross exaggeration. The Minister of Overseas Trade. Mr Taiboys,• who probably knows the "true position better than any of us, has said that our trade with Chile reached a peak of $7.13 million in 1972-73, and, if resumed, could be worth up to S2OM. I cannot recall these same correspondents expressing any indignation when our (National) Government banned all trade with China — for 22 years, at the behest, not of our own F.0.L., but the United States. When that country finally resumed trade links with the really huge, potential Chinese market, we. like the sheep we know so well, meekly followed suit. — Yours, etc.. M. T. MOORE. May 26, 1981.
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