§ 98. Sir J. D. REESasked the Secretary of State for India whether the export tax on tea, which amounts to a bounty to foreign tea-producing countries, is a strictly temporary war tax?
§ The SECRETARY Of STATE for INDIA (Mr. Chamberlain)I am afraid that I cannot forecast future Budget arrangements.
§ 99. Sir J. D. REESasked whether India will be represented at the Paris Conference; whether the question of imposing an import tax in the United Kingdom on tea from other countries of the same amount as the tax recently imposed upon tea exported from India, has been, or will be, considered by His Majesty's Government; and whether the new Indian export tax will be held to be applicable to the unshippel balance of last season's Indian tea crop?
§ Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe answer to the first question is in the negative and to the third question in the affirmative. I have not thought it necessary to make any representation to the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the lines suggested in the second question.