§ 37. Sir P. GOFFasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will obtain information in future as to the location of the purchases by the Russian authorities of Empire-grown tea so as to ascertain whether British exports to Russia under the trade agreement contain purchases of Indian and Ceylon tea represending, in aggregate, additional British trade, or whether the purchases in question are merely the transfer to the United Kingdom of orders which have hitherto been, or would normally be, placed in India or Ceylon and not in the United Kingdom?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLEI see no reason at present to undertake any special inquiry on this subject, but the working out of the arrangements under Article 3 of the Anglo-Soviet Commercial Agreement will, of course, be watched.