§ COLONEL BRIDGEMAN (Bolton)asked the President of the Board of Trade, Whether he can supplement the figures given in Mr. Giffen's article in The Board of Trade Journal for February, by stating the amount of the exports from Germany in 1885 and 1886?
§ THE PRESIDENT (Sir MICHAEL HICKS-BEACH) (Bristol, W.)It would be impossible to bring down the figures generally in Mr. Giffen's Report to a later date than is contained in it, as the figures were mostly collected from the Blue Books of many foreign countries and British Possessions, and when the Report was prepared some of these countries had not issued their detailed statistics for a later year than 1885. Some later figures could be given; but, the Report being a comparative one, the sames dates were taken throughout. The Statistical Abstract for Foreign Countries, now in the press, will contain many of these later figures, including the exports from Germany referred to by the hon. and gallant Member.