§ SIR EDWIN CORNWALL (Bethnal Green, N.E.)To ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give details of the kinds and descriptions of the wholly manufactured articles which were imported into this country in a state ready for consumption in the years 1906 and 1907.
(Answered by Mr. Churchill.) The following statement gives the information asked for by my hon. friend—
List showing as far as possible the Descriptions of Goods imported into the United Kingdom in 1906 and 1907 1235 which were introduced in a condition completely manufactured and ready for consumption. (The list is the same as that adopted for the purpose of the Return, No. 190, of session 1907)—
§ Description of Article.
§ Apparel: waterproofed by any process; not waterproofed: of wool or of wool mixed with other materials; of other materials. Arms, ammunition, and military and naval stores: ammunition: shot and shell; propellants: cordite and other smokeless propellants; gunpowder; high explosives: dynamite and other high explosives; small arms ammunition; fuses, tubes, primers, etc.; percussion caps; metal cartridge cases other than small arms ammunition—filled; empty; rockets and other combustibles for warlike purposes, explosives, and ammunition of natures not named above. Arms: cannon: guns, howitzers, mortars, and parts thereof; automatic machine and quick-firing guns and parts thereof; gun-mountings and carriages and parts thereof. Small arms: rifles, carbines, muskets, and fowling-pieces; revolvers and pistols; swords, cutlasses, bayonets, and arms of other sorts not firearms. Torpedoes and submarine mine appliances. Military, naval, and ordnance stores, and appliances not enumerated above. Art, works of, other than pictures. Baskets and basketware. Bead trimmings. Blacking and polishes (containing no spirit or sweetening matter). Books, printed. Brooms and brushes. Buttons and studs (not of metal). Candles. Caoutchouc manufacture: boots and shoes; other sorts. Carriages, waggonettes, cart, etc.: cycles, other than motor cycles; motor cars; motor cycles; other descriptions. Chinaware or porcelain and earthenware: porcelain, china, and parian earthenware (including semi-porcelain, majolica, and glazed hearth and wall tiles, jet Rockingham, and glazed terra-cotta ware); red pottery, stoneware, brown and yellow ware. Other sorts (including electrical ware door fittings, and chemical ware). Clocks. Cordage, cables, ropes, and twine of hemp, coir, or like material. Cork, manufactured. Cotton manufactures: hosiery of all sorts; lace, and other articles thereof; unenumerated. Curios. Cutlery. Drugs, quinine, and quinine 1236 salts. Electrical goods and apparatus (other than machinery and telegraph and telephone wires): electric wires and cables, insulated: rubber insulated (other than telegraph and telephone cables); insulations other than rubber (not being telegraph and telephone cables). Telegraph and telephone cables; telegraph and telephone apparatus; electrical goods and apparatus unenumerated. Embroidery and needlework: made by hand; made by machinery. Fancy goods (known as Paris goods). Flowers (artificial). Glass, bottles. Glass, manufactured, other sorts. Hair, manufactures of (other than mohair). Hardware: hollow-ware, enamelled; hollow-ware, not enamelled; other than hollow-ware. Hats and bonnets, trimmed or untrimmed: felt; straw; other sorts. Implements and tools and parts thereof. Jewellery. Jute, manufactures of, other than cordage, cables, ropes, and twine, but including piece goods, sacks, and bags. Lace and articles thereof, unemunerated. Lamps and lantern (except electric). Leather manufactures: boots and shoes; gloves; unenumerated (except belting for machinery). Linen manufactures, including manufactures of linen mixed with cotton, linen predominating. Machinery and mill-work, or parts thereof: steam engines; locomotives; agricultural; other descriptions, not being steam engines or electrical machinery: agricultural; sewing machines; mining; textile; other descriptions; electrical, of all kinds. Matches, safety. Matches, other sorts. Mats and Matting. Metals, manufactures of: brass, bronze, and metal, bronzed or lacquered, manufactures of: copper manufactures, unenumerated. Rails: new perfect rails for railway use, both steam and electric, and conductor rails for electric traction; tram rails with grooved heads for tramways worked by horse or by mechanical power. Tubes, pipes, and fittings, wrought; pipes and fittings, cast; iron and steel manufactures, unenumerated; zinc, manufactures of; metal unenumerated, wrought or manufactured. Musical instruments: organs and harmoniums; pianos; all other musical instruments. Oil cloth for floor coverings; for furniture coverings; for all other purposes. Oil-seed cake, containing non-dutiable ingredients: cotton-seed 1237 cake; linseed cake; rape-seed cake; other sorts. Paper: printed paper hangings; other printed or coated papers. Perfumery and articles used in the manufacture thereof (except perfumed spirits). Pictures and drawings by hand; Pipes of all sorts, for smoking tobacco. Plate of gold. Plate of silver, gilt or ungilt. Prints, engravings, photographs, maps, and charts. Scientific instruments and apparatus (other than electrical). Ships and boats (new). Silk manufactures: wholly of silk: lace and articles thereof; ribbons, silk or satin; ribbons, velvet, plain, or figured. Mixed with other materials, silk predominating: lace and articles thereof; ribbons. Other kinds of manufactures, mixed or not with other materials, silk predominating. Skins and furs, manufactures of (including skin rugs). Soap: powder; household; toilet; other sorts (including cotton-seed oil soap. Stationery (other than paper). Straw envelopes for bottles. Toys and games. Watches. Wood, manufactures of, furniture and cabinet ware. Woollen and worsted manufactures (of wool or of wool mixed with other materials, wool predominating): hosiery; carpets; rugs; mohair braids and laces; unenumerated; goods, unenumerated, manufactured.