§ MR. FLOWER (Bradford, W.)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer whether, seeing that linseed, rapeseed, and cotton cake come into this country duty free, and cakes manufactured from these seeds abroad, and seeing that the home manufacturer of maize and rice meal, which come into competition with the above-mentioned materials, has to pay an import duty of 3d. per cwt. on the raw material, and consequently is at a disadvantage of 5s. per ton in competition with the aforesaid products, he will consider the advisability of imposing a similar duty of 3d. per cwt. on imports of the aforementioned linseed, rapeseed, and cotton seed, and cakes made there-from.
(Answer.) It was not thought advisable to include linseed, rapeseed, and cotton seed in the duty. They were not included in the old duty of 1849–69, and belong to a totally different group from
† See (4) Debates, LXXXVI., 231.1339 the articles included in it, viz., to the group of articles containing oil. But, if the cake made from them contained any dutiable article, it would to that extent be taxed. (Treasury.)