It is one of the few firms in the industry which export all over the world and it was a pioneer of tufted carpet technology.
Quotas were imposed on polyester filament yarn and nylon carpet yarn, but not on tufted carpets.
To the ordinary man in the street, tufted carpets mean nylon carpets.
It is not as though the man-made fibre tufted carpet industry was doing anything other than selling more in 1979.
That is true of the tufted carpet industry in this country.
We are not accepting a meaningless statement in relation to tufted carpets.
I agree that there will be disappointment in the industry regarding tufted carpets.
The result is that tufted carpets are being imported at a lower price than we can manufacture them.
