§ SIR EDWAED STRACHEY (Somersetshire, S.)To ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs if he will state the amount in tons of feeding offals imported into France from the United Kingdom and from other countries, and on which is paid the French import duty of 4s. 10d. a ton.
(Answer.) The French Customs classify feeding offals with "Bran from all kinds of grains," paying a duty of 4s. 10d. per ton. The quantity of this feeding stuff imported into France in 1900, the latest year for which statistics are available, was 133,305 tons supplied by the following countries—
The greater part of this, however, consists of bran produced from cereals temporarily admitted into France, and the statistics do not therefore show the actual amount of feeding offal imported into France as such.—(Foreign Office.)
Tons. United Kingdom 704 Russia 83,081 Argentine Republic 22,026 Italy 7,267 United States 7,226 Turkey 3,536 Canada 2,989 Belgium 2,685 Australia 1,227 Roumania 742 British India 563 Other Countries 1,259 Tons. 133,305