§ 15. Mr. Perkinsasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware that, as a result of the Ottawa Agreements, the firm of R. A. Lister and Company agreed to distribute in this country certain products made by the Cockshutt Plow and Frost and Wood Companies in exchange for a preference in favour of English-made cream separators; and whether he can give any figures for 1937 showing the value of Canadian-made products sold in this country under this agreement and the value of English-made separators exported?
Mr. StanleyI regret that I have no detailed information about the arrangement to which my hon. Friend refers, and do not know what Canadian-made products are covered by it. Figures of the value of cream separators exported from the United Kingdom to Canada are not yet available for 1937, but in 1936 the value of these exports was £15,919.
§ 16. Mr. Perkinsasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he is aware of a proposal to remove the British preference under the Canadian tariff schedules on cream separators; and, having regard to the serious repercussion which would accrue to the two-way trade between the Dominion of Canada and this country if such a decision was taken, will he make the strongest possible recommendations to the Canadian Government that the present tariff preference should not be disturbed?
Mr. StanleyI am aware of a proposal contained in a report of a Select Special Committee of the Canadian House of Commons on Farm Implements that cream separators should be placed on the free list. As regards the second part of the question, I am afraid that there are no grounds on which representations to the Canadian Government could usefully be made.
| Statement showing the mean wholesale prices of first and second grade beef based on actual sales at the London Central Markets on Monday, 24th January. 1938, and on Monday. 28th January. 1935, as authorised for publication by the Central Markets Committee, with the percentage increases or decreases. | ||||||
| —— | Price per 8 lbs | Increase or Decrease. | ||||
| 28th January, 1935. | 24th January, 1938. | |||||
| s. | d. | s. | d. | per cent. | ||
| Scottish, short sides | … | 4 | 11 | 5 | 10 | + 18.6 |
| Scottish, long sides | … | 4 | 7 | 5 | 6 | + 20.0 |
| English, long sides | … | 4 | 1 | 5 | 2 | + 26.5 |
| English pieces | … | 4 | 3 | 5 | 4 | + 25.5 |
| Irish (Birkenhead killed) sides | … | 3 | 9 | 4 | 10 | + 28.9 |
| Irish (Birkenhead killed) pieces | … | 4 | 1 | 5 | 1 | + 24.5 |
| Argentine chilled hindquarters | … | 3 | 8 | 4 | 6½ | + 23.9 |
| Argentine chilled forequarters | … | 2 | 6 | 3 | 0½ | + 21.7 |
| Uruguayan chilled hindquarters | … | 3 | 5 | 4 | 3½ | + 25.6 |
| Australian frozen hindquarters | … | 2 | 8 | 2 | 11 | + 9.4 |
| Australian frozen crops | … | 2 | 1½ | 2 | 3½ | + 7.8 |