§ SIR EDWARD SASSOON (Hythe)To ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer if he would state the quantity and value of all grades of tea imported in 1902–3, and the quantity and value of teas imported from our possessions and dependencies.
{Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The imports of tea of all grades in the financial year 1902–3 amounted to 280,062,365 lbs., valued at £8,316,544. Of this 252,400,539 lbs., valued at £7,513,431, represented imports from British possessions and dependencies.