§ 15. Mr. POTTERasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department whether any important orders have reached the United Kingdom from Argentina as the definite result of the Roca Agreement?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLE (Secretary, Overseas Trade Department)It is not possible to attribute individual orders directly to the Anglo-Argentine Convention. I understand that certain important orders have in fact been secured by traders since the Agreement was signed, and I trust that even a larger number will be placed during the remaining term of the Agreement.
§ 54. Mr. POTTERasked the Secretary for Mines whether there has been any increase in the export of British coal to Argentina since the signing of the Roca Agreement?
§ The SECRETARY for MINES (Mr. Ernest Brown)Provision for the maintenance of the position of British coal exports to Argentina appears in the Supplementary Agreement ratified on 7th November, 1933. The statistics of the exports of British coal to Argentina in the five months ended March, 1934, show a slight increase as compared with those for the corresponding period a year ago.
§ Mr. HANNONMay I ask whether this slight increase in the export of coal to Argentina is what this country is getting out of the Argentine Trade Agreement?
§ Mr. BROWNWe are concerned here only with coal. I would point out to my hon. Friend that as regards coal the position before the agreement was extremely satisfactory, seeing that we were exporting nearly 90 per cent. of Argentina's coal imports.