HC Deb 20 March 1933 vol 276 cc30-8
47. Mr. T. WILLIAMS

asked the Minister of Agriculture the quantities of foreign imports of meat, bacon and ham, butter, cheese, milk, and other agricultural products that any Order under the Agricultural Marketing Bill, 1933, could apply to, and the quantities of similar products that would be exempt from such Order by reason of the Ottawa Agreements?

Major ELLIOT

Under the Agricultural Marketing Bill, an Order may be made for regulating the importation of any agricultural product where such regulation is necessary in order to make fully effective the reorganisation of some branch of the agricultural industry affected by an agricultural marketing scheme under that Act. The Act of 1931 defines "agricultural product" for the purpose of a marketing scheme as including any product of agriculture or horticulture and any article of food or drink wholly or partly manufactured or derived from any such product, and fleeces and the skins of animals. On this basis, I have had a very full statement prepared and sent to the hon. Member, showing respectively the imports from foreign countries and from those Empire countries which entered into Ottawa Agreements. For convenience, the statement has been limited to agricultural commodities normally produced in this country. The hon. Member will be aware that, under the Ottawa Agreements, free entry for three years certain was agreed to in respect of eggs, poultry, cheese and other milk products from the Dominions concerned. The hon. Member will also be aware of the special arrangements made at Ottawa in regard to meat.

Mr. WILLIAMS

Are we to understand from the right hon. and gallant Gentleman's reply that the Ottawa Agreement, as affecting all dairy products, etc., cannot be affected by any Order under the Agricultural Marketing Bill?

Major ELLIOT

Except by consent, of course.

Colonel GRETTON

Will the statement referred to by my right hon. and gallant Friend be available to Members of the House generally, as well as to the hon. Member who asked the question?

Major ELLIOT

It is a long statement. If it is desired by the House, I shall be very glad to give it in answer to a written question.

Sir ARTHUR STEEL-MAITLAND

Could not the Minister circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT?

Major ELLIOT indicated assent

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Following is the statement:

Imports into the United Kingdom from Foreign Countries in 1931 of Agricultural Commodities normally produced in this Country.
000 tons
Wheat 3,426.0
Barley 695.1
Oats 366.0
Bye .9
Buckwheat .6
Peas, not fresh:
Split peas 5.6
Other than split peas 66.9
Beans, not fresh:
Haricot beans 9.0
Butter beans 8.6
Other sorts 24.2
Wheat meal and flour 212.5
Wheat products, other sorts:
Macaroni. 5.9
Other descriptions, including shredded wheat and semolina 3.6
Oat products:
Meal 6.1
Other sorts, including groats and rolled 6.5
Barley products:
Meal and flour .4
Pearled barley 8.2
Rye meal and flour 2.5
Malt 1.0
Cereal by-products:
Bran and pollard 200.6
Sharps and middlings 106.4
Hay 1.2
Straw —
Beef:
Chilled 464.4
Frozen 57.3
Other kinds 56.7
Veal, all kinds 1.8
Mutton, all kinds 36.2
Lamb, all kinds 73.8
Pig products:
Bacon 539.3
Hams 37.0
Pork, all kinds 24.8
Rabbits, all kinds 1.6
Other descriptions of meat, not elsewhere specified 2.5
Poultry: Thousands
Alive 90.0
000 tons
Dead 27.6
Game: Thousands
Alive 155.4
000 tons
Dead .8
Animals, living, for food: Thousands
Bulls and bullocks:
Fat, for food —
Other, for food —
Cows:
Fat, for food —
Other, for food —
Calves —
Sheep and Iambs —
Swine —
000 tons.
Butter 203.5
Cheese 18.1
000 gallons.
Cider or perry, not containing added spirit 366.5

Thousands of Great Hundreds.
Eggs, in shell 19.784
000 tons.
Eggs, not in shell:
Liquid or frozen (whole yolk or white) 38.4
Albumen .9
Dried (except albumen) .4
Fruit, not liable to duty, raw:
Apples 222.3
Apricots 4.4
Cherries 2.9
Currants 5.2
Gooseberries .8
Grapes 42.9
Peaches and nectarines 3.7
Pears 49.3
Plums, Greengages and Damsons 23.4
Strawberries 4.5
Fruit, not liable to duty as such, preserved without sugar:
Canned or bottled:
Apricots and apricot pulp 6.7
Other sorts 10.2
Other than canned or bottled 35.0
Honey 1.9
Margarine 33.8
Milk:
Fresh .7
Cream 5.0
Condensed, not sweetened 22.4
Powder, not sweetened 10.0
Preserved, other kinds not sweetened .2
Condensed, sweetened, whole 10.9
Condensed, sweetened, separated 102.3
Powder, sweetened —
Lard 113.8
000 gallons.
Pickles and vegetables preserved in vinegar 30.2
000 tons.
Mustard .4
Vegetables, raw:
Potatoes 747.3
Tomatoes 108.4
000 bushels.
Onions 10.156
000 tons.
Vegetables;
Dried .2
Preserved in salt or brine 15.0
Preserved by canning or bottling, with no sweetening matter:
Canned:
Peas 1.3
Tomatoes 39.7
Other Descriptions 3.9
Bottled .03
Yeast 12.2
000 Standard
Barrels.
Beer:
Mum, spruce, black beer, Berlin white beer or other similar preparations —
Of any other description 27.3
000 tons.
Hops 2.7
Sugar (total of all kinds) 1,231.8
Molasses and invert sugar 104.2
Fruit preserved in sugar:
Tinned in sprup:
Apricots 8.0
Currants, gooseberries, loganberries, raspberries and strawberries 3.2
Peaches 30.4
Pears 33.8
Plums, greengages, damsons, etc .2
Bottled in syrup: Apricots, peaches, pears .005
Total of all fruit, preserved, tinned or bottled in syrup 101.2
000 centals of 100 lbs.
Wool, Raw: Total of sheep's and lambs' wool 1,903.6
000 tons.
Hides: Total of all kinds, undressed 40.9
Skins, other than fur skins, undressed:
Sheep and lamb skins:
Woolled 4.8
Other than woolled 1.1
Thousands.
Goat skins:
Wet, dry and dry salted 1,366
000 tons.
Skins of other animals .4
Thousands.
Fur skins, undressed: Rabbit skins 4,378
000 tons.
Feathers:
In or for beds 5.4
000 lbs.
Ornamental (other than ostrich) 12.2
000 £.
Flowers, fresh (shown by value only) 881.3
Thousands.
Plants:
Plants, shrubs and trees, producing edible fruit 783.5
Plants, shrubs and trees, not producing edible fruit 36,552.1
Bulbs 574,024.9
Flower roots 12,296.7
000 tons.
Seeds, agricultural and horticultural, other than oil seeds:
Clover 1.9
Flower .2
Grass 5.7
Tares and vetches 1.6
Vegetable 1.8
Other sorts 2.2
000£
Willows for basket-making (value only) 24.6
000 tone.
Flax:
Not dressed 24.9
Dressed 3.7
Thousands.
Animals, living, for breeding: Bulla
Cows, including heifers —
Calves —
Sheep and lambs —
Swine —
Horses:
Stallions .2
Mares .5
Geldings 1.3
Imports into the United Kingdom from British countries (other than the Irish Free State) during 1931, of Agricultural Commodities normally produced in this country.
000 tons.
Wheat 2,545.9
Barley 74.9
Oats 64.9
Rye 4.5
Buckwheat .3
Peas, not fresh:
Split peas .1
Other than split peas 12.7
Beans not fresh:
Haricot beans 4.5
Butter beans —
Other sorts .1
Wheatmeal and flour 322.7
Wheatmeal products, other sorts:
Macaroni .4
Other descriptions (including shredded wheat and semolina) 1.3
Oat products:
Meal 8.1
Other sorts (including groats and rolled) 22.7
Barley products:
Meal and flour .3
Pearled barley —*
Rye meal and flour —*
Malt —
Cereal by-products:
Bran and pollard 24.5
Sharps and middlings 9.0
Hay 8.4
Straw .4
Beef, all kinds:
Chilled —
Frozen 77.3
Other kinds .6
Veal, all kinds 5.5
Mutton, all kinds 82.6
Lamb, all kinds 170.9
Pig products:
Bacon 2.6
Hams 3.7
Pork, all kinds 12.0
Babbits, all kinds 17.3
Other descriptions of meat, not elsewhere specified .8
Thousands.
Poultry:
Alive .02
000 tons.
Dead .2
Thousands.
Game:
Alive .03
000 tons.
Dead .2
Thousands.
Animals, living, for food:
Bulls and bullocks, fat, for food 2.6
Bulls and bullocks, other, for food 22.9
Cows:
Fat, for food 1.9
Other, for food .2
Calves —
Sheep and lambs —
Swine —
000 tons.
Butter 180.4
Cheese 126.2
000 gallons.
Cider or perry, not containing added spirit 4.2
Thousands of Great Hundreds.
Eggs, in shell 1,566
000 tons.
Eggs, not in shell:
Liquid or frozen (whole yolk or white) .4
Albumen —*
Dried (except albumen) —
Fruits, not liable to duty, raw:
Apples 157.7
Apricots .02
Cherries —
Currants —*
Gooseberries .01
Grapes 4.3
Peaches and nectarines 1.0
Pears 12.6
Plums, greengages and damsons 2.3
Strawberries —
Fruit, not liable to duty as such, preserved without sugar:
Canned or bottled:
Apricots and Apricot pulp —*
Other sorts 1.0
Other than canned or bottled .4
Honey 2.0
Margarine —*
Milk:
Fresh —
Cream —*
Condensed, not sweetened 1.2
Powder, not sweetened 7.6
Preserved, other kinds, not sweetened .02
Condensed, sweetened, whole .3
Condensed, sweetened, separate .01
Powder, sweetened .4
Lard 12.0
000 gallons.
Pickles and vegetables preserved in vinegar .7
000 tons.
Mustard —*
Vegetables, raw:
Potatoes 46.4
Tomatoes 38.4
000 bushels.
Onions 14.8
Vegetables, dried —*
Vegetables, preserved in salt or brine .04
* Less than 10 tons.
000 bushels.
Vegetables preserved by canning or bottling with no sweetening matter:
Canned:
Peas .01
Tomatoes .3
Other descriptions .03
Bottled —
Yeast .01
000 Standard barrels.
Beer:
Mum, spruce, black beer, Berlin white beer or other similar descriptions
of any other description .02
000 tons
Hops .03
Sugar (of all kinds) 600.4
Molasses and invert sugar 44.8
Fruit preserved in sugar:
Tinned in syrup—Apricots 1.6
Currants, gooseberries, loganberries, raspberries and strawberries .3
Peaches 6.2
Pears 3.4
Plums, greengages, etc. .2
Bottled, in syrup:
Apricots —
Peaches —
Pears —
Total of all fruit, preserved, tinned or bottled in syrup 46.1
000 Centals of 100 lbs.
Wool, raw: total of sheep's and lambs' wool 6.504
000 tons
Hides, total of all kinds, undressed 19.0
Skins, other than fur skins, undressed: sheep and lamb skins, woolled 20.3
Do., other than woolled 5.7
Thousands
Goat skins: wet, dry and dry salted 6.607
000 tons
Skins of other animals .2
Thousands
Fur skins, undressed: rabbit skins 22.616
Feathers: 000 tons
In or for beds .9
000 lbs.
Ornamental, other than ostrich 1.1
000 £
Flowers, fresh (shown by value only) 182.7
Plants: Thousands
Plants, shrubs, trees, producing edible fruit 28.8
Do., not producing edible fruit 54.2
Bulbs 3,987.9
Flower roots 72.6
Seeds, agricultural and horticultural, other than oil seeds: 000 tons
Clover 1.3
Flower .01
Grass .7
Tares and vetches —*
Vegetable .1
Other sorts .05
*Less than 5 tons.
000 £
Willows for basket-making (value only) .3
Flax: 000 tons
Not dressed —
Dressed —
Animals, living, for breeding: Thousands
Bulls .1
Cows, including heifers 1.6
Calves .2
Sheep and lambs —
Swine —
Horses:
Stallions .005
Mares .02
Geldings .03
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