§ 82. Sir J. Mellorasked the President of the Board of Trade from which Dominions tobacco is imported into the United Kingdom; the quantities imported from each in 1937 and in the last available year; the total production in each of those Dominions; and whether he has taken, or proposes to take, any steps to encourage export to this country from those Dominions.
§ Sir S. CrippsThe only Dominion from which tobacco is imported is Canada, but it is also imported from India and Southern Rhodesia. As the answers to the second and third parts of the Question involve the compilation of a number of figures, I will, with the hon. Member's permission, circulate them in the Official Report as soon as they are available, together with figures for the Empire as a whole. Exports from Canada, India and Southern Rhodesia are only limited by the amounts of their available surplus.