§ Viscount SANDONasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he can give a return for 1928 of the percentage of each principal commodity imported into and exported from each port in the world in British bottoms, with the percentage in each case attaching to the different countries of origin and of destination?
Description. 1913. 1922. 1923. 1924. 1925. 1926. 1927. 1928. Thousand Gallons. Crude Petroleum — — 302 * 1,842 — — — Refined Petroleum: Lump oil 9,835 6,976 6,556 10,222 15,796 37,495 37,618 59,859 Motor spirit 14,883 901 4,063 19,215 33,111 55,217 39,836 46,614 Spirit, other than Motor Spirit. — — — — — — 2,334 — Lubricating oil 13,573 925 1,808 5,060 3,514 5,242 7,002 8,289 Gas oil — — —. * 1,717 7,227 5,955 4,231 Fuel oil — — — 1,618 37,898 — 308 6,051 Other sorts * — — — — — 1 — Total refined 38,291 8,802 12,487 36,115 92,036 105,181 93,054 125,044 * Less than 500 gallons. NOTES.—From 1st April 1923, the above figures exclude direct imports into the Irish Free State. 1922 on wards represent consignments from the U.S.S.R.
The figures in respect of 1928 are provisional.