§ MR. RUNCIMAN (Dewsbury)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies, if he can state what proportion of sugar produced in the West Indies is sold in the United States; and what amount of protection against European competition is afforded to this sugar by the countervailing duties levied by the United States Government on bounty-fed sugar.
§ MR. J. CHAMBERLAINAccording to the latest returns available of the sugar exported from the West Indian Colonies, about three-fourths in value has gone to the United States. The United States Countervailing Duties on European bounty-fed sugar of the best quality vary from about 4s. 6d. per cwt. in the case of France to about 7½d. in the case of Denmark.