§ 34. Sir P. HARRISasked the President of the Board of Trade which of the principal commercial countries of the world show an increase in exports this year compared with the same months in 1933 and which show a decrease?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANOf the 24 principal commercial countries, 13 show an increase and 11 a decrease. I will circulate the list in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Sir P. HARRISIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that the Prime Minister said that this country was the only one to show an increase?
§ Mr. WESTWill the right hon. Gentleman note that the countries which he quotes as showing an increase are all high wage paying countries?
§ Mr. RUNCIMANI have not quoted them yet. They are to be circulated in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
§ Mr. WESTHas the right hon. Gentleman noticed that these countries are all high wage paying countries?
§ Following is the list:
§ Of the 24 countries the value of whose aggregate import and export trade in 1934 exceeded 1 per cent. of the total of world trade (in terms of gold), the values, in national currency of the exports in 1935 have been greater than in the corresponding period of 1933 in the case of 13 countries and less in the case of 11 countries, as indicated below. The number of months to which the particulars relate in each case is shown in brackets:
| Increases. | Decreases. |
| United Kingdom (5) | Germany (5). |
| France (5) | |
| United States (4). | Belgium (4). |
| Japan (4). | Netherlands (5). |
| Canada (5). | Italy (5). |
| British India (4). | China (5). |
| Argentina (5). | Switzerland (5). |
| Union of South Africa (3). | Soviet Union (4). |
| Dutch East Indies (3). | |
| Australia (4). | |
| Sweden (5). | Algeria (3). |
| British Malaya (3). | Spain (4). |
| Czechoslovakia (5). | |
| Denmark (5). | |
| Brazil (3). |