HC Deb 18 April 1910 vol 16 c1850W
Mr. ARBUTHNOT

asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give figures for the past three years showing the amount of raw cotton imported into Great Britain for transhipment to other countries?

Mr. BUXTON

The quantities of imported raw cotton recorded as re-exported from the United Kingdom in each of the years 1907–9 were as follows: 1907, 2,949,572 cwts.; 1908, 2,597,948 cwts.; 1909, 2,398,513 cwts.