Foreign flood

SIR: The Office for National Statistics has reported that imports from South Korea have been 25 per cent higher than usual over the last three months. The ONS has also reported that the UK's non-EU trade deficit for February soared up to £1.6 billion pounds, the highest ever figure for a single month and nearly double January's deficit figure of £879 million pounds, As foreign goods continue to flood into Britain, threatening the jobs of British workers, it is time that the Government re-negotiated each of its trading treaties on a country by country basis. The British Government must have the courage to introduce a wide-ranging package of tariffs on unnecessary imports. British manufacturing and agriculture must provide the basis for our domestic market. That way, economic policy can be more readily controlled and output can provide for around 80 per cent of our nation's needs. Britain being a world power is big enough to provide for its own market and to find export niches around the world. Failure to protect British workers will lead to dire consequences for future generations of Britons. We need a system of rational and pragmatic tariffs before it is too late.