Preferential Treatment by United States of Sugar Grown in the Philippine Islands.

HC Deb 17 April 1905 vol 145 c279

MR. LOUGH (Islington, W.)

To ask the Secretary to the Board of Trade whether sugar grown in the Philippine Islands enjoys any, and, if so, what preferential treatment on entry into the United States.

(Answered by Mr. Bonar Law.) Philippine sugar imported into the United States pays 75 per cent. of the ordinary tariff rates of import duty.