HC Deb 20 April 1943 vol 388 cc1521-2
25. Mr. John Dugdale

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare the quantities of copper and nitrate, respectively, to be shipped from Chile to Spain during this year?

Mr. Foot

The United Nations have arranged to purchase the whole of Chile's exportable surplus of copper in 1943. There will be no exports of this commodity from Chile to Spain. As regards nitrates, it is impossible to foretell the precise quantities which will be shipped, but Spanish imports of nitrates from all sources will in any case be substantially lower than those in a normal peace-time year.

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