§ 74. Mr. LEVYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he is aware that a merchant buying dresses of silk content abroad pays 33⅓ per cent. on importing them into this country on the whole value of the dresses, whereas a private individual only pays on the silk content, and that this difference acts to the disadavantage of British traders; and what action he proposes to take?
§ Major ELLIOTI would refer my hon. Friend to the reply which the Chancellor of the Exchequer gave to a question on this subject addressed to him by the hon. Member for the Clayton Division of Manchester (Mr. Flanagan) on the 26th November.