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Dr. SHIELS
The statistics for which the hon. Member asks for the period 1922 to 1928, so far as they are available, are given in the following table. No figures are yet available in respect of the year 1929.
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| Trade between the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the British Colonies, Protectorates, etc., for the period 1922 to 1928 (1929 figures are not yet available). |
| (1) The Table below shows the value of Imports from the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics into British Colonies, Protectorates, etc., during the period 1922–1928. |
| Territory. |
1922. |
1923. |
1924. |
1925. |
1926. |
1927. |
1928. |
|
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
| Kenya and Uganda |
… |
… |
399 |
16 |
135 |
159 |
430 |
764 |
387 |
| Northern Rhodesia |
… |
… |
104 |
102 |
226 |
190 |
560 |
696 |
1,581 |
| Zanzibar Protectorate |
… |
… |
— |
— |
31 |
3 |
48 |
14 |
2 |
| Gambia |
… |
… |
— |
— |
56 |
— |
— |
207 |
— |
| Gold Coast |
… |
… |
89 |
305 |
97 |
66 |
181 |
382 |
825 |
| Sierra Leone |
… |
… |
63 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
| Cyprus |
… |
… |
67 |
6,730 |
15,103 |
21,762 |
12,531 |
14,351 |
27,799 |
| Malta |
… |
… |
97,162 |
11,888 |
21,893 |
87,581 |
— |
— |
— |
| Palestine |
… |
… |
22,938 |
22,958 |
27,779 |
74,625 |
20,536 |
33,069 |
28,704 |
| Ceylon |
… |
… |
9,844 |
120,379 |
242,751 |
286,696 |
7,996 |
7,454 |
3,646 |
| Mauritius |
… |
… |
117 |
53 |
104 |
53 |
8 |
8 |
551 |
| Fiji |
… |
… |
— |
— |
39 |
— |
— |
— |
— |
| Hong Kong |
… |
… |
1,341 |
No figures available for period 1923–1928. |
|
| British Malaya |
… |
… |
54,966 |
11,519 |
4,199 |
3,932 |
11,444 |
20,554 |
723 |
| Bahamas |
… |
… |
— |
— |
— |
438 |
705 |
555 |
571 |
| Barbados |
… |
… |
— |
— |
— |
— |
— |
92 |
— |
| Jamaica |
… |
… |
80 |
72 |
167 |
78 |
133 |
1,125 |
184 |
| Leeward Islands |
… |
… |
(a) |
(a) |
(a) |
14 |
8 |
(a) |
(a) |
| Trinidad and Tobago |
… |
… |
(a) |
(a) |
(a) |
(a) |
640 |
(a) |
716 |
| Grenada |
… |
… |
7 |
— |
— |
11 |
6 |
7 |
32 |
| St. Lucia |
… |
… |
— |
— |
4 |
8 |
— |
— |
— |
| St. Vincent |
… |
… |
2 |
5 |
2 |
8 |
4 |
6 |
4 |
| British Guiana |
… |
… |
5 |
— |
— |
— |
41 |
2 |
— |
| British Honduras |
… |
… |
— |
— |
5 |
— |
6 |
173 |
62 |
| (a) Details not available. |
| (2) There were the undermentioned exports to the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics from British Colonies and Protectorates during 1922–1928. |
| Kenya and Uganda: |
| 1924—£2; 1926—£9; 1926—£17; 1927—£17; 1928—£6. |
| Gold Coast: |
| 1928—£1,039. |
| Cyprus: |
| 1922—£6; 1923—£6; 1924—£1; 1925—£2. |
| Palestine: |
| 1922—£1,138; 1923—£215; 1924—£176; 1925—£1,154; 1926—£2,003; 1927—£2,731; 1928—£547. |
| Ceylon: |
| 1922—£132; 1923—£33; 1924—£10,110: 1925—£108,235; 1926—£56,411; 1927—£257,355; 1928—£296,375. |
| Hong Kong: |
| 1922—£694 (No figures are available for the period 1923–1928). |
| British Malaya: |
| 1925—£16,500; 1926—£6,156; 1927—£6,299; 1928—£20,605. |
| Jamaica: |
| 1925—£235. |
| (3) There has been no trade during 1922–1028 between the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the following: |
| Somaliland (No details available of the destination of all exports during 1925), Nigeria, Seychelles, St. Helena, Turks and Caicos Islands, Bermuda, Falkland Islands (No figures available for 1928). |
| (4) There are no details available of any trade during 1922–1928 between the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics and the following: |
| Nyasaland Protectorate, Tanganyika Protectorate, Gibraltar, Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, British Solomon Islands Protectorate, New Hebrides, Tonga, Weihaiwei, North Borneo, Sarawak. |
| NOTE: |
| Rupees (Years 1922 and 1923) converted at Is. 4d. |
| Rupees (Years 1924–1928) converted at Is. 6d. |
| Dollar (Malaya) converted at 2s. 4d. |
| Dollar (British Guiana and British Honduras) converted at 4s. 2d. |
| £ Egyptian converted at £1 0s. 6d. |
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