§ 54. Mr. MACKINDERasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will now allow coloured foreign chalks and crayons to be imported without a licence from the Dyestuffs Advisory Licensing Committee in view of the fact that goods of a similar standard cannot be produced in this country?
Mr. SAMUELI have been asked to reply. The importation of foreign chalks and crayons is prohibited under the Dye-stuffs (Import Regulation) Act only if they are of synthetic organic origin. A large variety of these materials is available from British sources, and consequently there is no reason for any departure from the practice usually followed in the administration of the Act.
§ Mr. MACKINDERIs the hon. Gentleman not aware that British manufacturers have repeatedly told the importers that they cannot get a British product of the same use and value?