§ 35. Mr. DAGGARasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the total quantity of coal imported by Norway and Sweden; and the percentage of that quantity purchased from the United Kingdom during the years 1925, 1929, 1930, 1931 and 1932, together with similar particulars for the first four months of each of those years and 1933?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLE (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)As the answer involves a tabular statement, I will circulate it in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Following is the statement:
§ with foreign countries, he will, when in future White Papers giving the details of trade agreements are issued, cause the existing rates of duty to be printed side by side with the proposed new rates in 1543 the schedules to the agreements, both as regards the duties imposed by foreign countries and those imposed by the Government of the United Kingdom?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLEThe text of an agreement published in a White Paper must be an exact copy of the agreement as signed, but as my right hon. Friend stated in reply to the hon. Member for Hulme (Sir J. Nail) on 2nd May, full details of all changes in rates of duty to be made as a consequence of all such agreements will be- published in the Board of Trade Journal.
§ ARGENTINA.
§ 34. Mr. ROBINSONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether any move has yet been made by the Argentine Government in the direction of reducing their tariffs against British goods to the 1930 level?
§ Dr. BURGINIn accordance with Article 3 of the Convention of 1st May, negotiations will be opened very shortly in Buenos Aires for the conclusion of a supplementary agreement, which is designed to give effect, inter alia, to the undertaking of the Argentine Government to reduce certain duties to the 1930 level, so far as fiscal considerations and the interests of national industries permit.