§ CAPTAIN SINCLAIR (Forfar)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he is now in a position to give the House the complete figures of the exports and imports of sugar from and into India for the year ending 31st March 1899, distinguishing raw sugar from refined.
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONThe exports of sugar from India in tee year ending 31st March 1899 (including re-imported sugar) were as follows:—Raw, 289,668 cwts.; refined, 208,899 cwts. The imports for the same period were as follows:—Raw, 312,778 cwts.; refined, 3,764,910 cwts.
§ CAPTAIN SINCLAIRI beg to ask the Secretary of State for India whether he can give particulars of the exports of refined sugar from India to Ceylon during the past few years; and whether the refined sugar so exported is native-refined or a re-export of foreign-refined.
§ LORD GEORGE HAMILTONOn page 110 of the recent Countervailing Duties Blue Book the hon. Member will find two tables giving details of Indian sugar exports to Ceylon and other countries. The tables distinguish between refined and unrefined sugar. All the sugar shown in the two tables 36 and 37 is Indian sugar. The re-exports of foreign relined sugar from India to Ceylon were small, and so were not shown separately in the Blue-book.