§ MR. BUCHANAN (Aberdeenshire, E.)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is aware that a large part of the sugar refined in Great Britain comes from Germany, and enjoys the advantage of the German bounty of 1s. 3d. a hundredweight; and whether the new Indian countervailing duty will apply to such British refined sugar, if it is exported from this country to India?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR INDIAI am aware that a certain proportion of the sugar refined in this country is bounty-fed sugar. The total amount of sugar exported from the United Kingdom to India during the past four years does not on the average exceed 900 tons a year, and I am not at present aware if any portion of this small export consists of refined sugar which previous to that process came from bounty-fed countries. There is a general clause in the new Act which imposes countervailing duties on any bounty-fed article, but I could not say off-hand if it would apply to such sugar.