§ Mr. RAMSBOTHAMasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give the names of the 10 chief foreign countries from which we receive most-favoured-nation treatment; what was the value of our exports to them in 1913, 1925 and 1929, respectively; and what 1159W percentage the totals represent of the total exports into each of those countries at each of the periods?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe names of the 10 foreign countries which grant most-favoured-nation treatment to goods of United Kingdom origin and are of most importance from the point of view of the domestic exports trade of this country
Countries. Exports (United Kingdom produce and manufactures). Proportion of the total value of Imports. 1913. 1925. 1929. 1913. 1925. 1929. Million £. Million £. Million £. Per cent. Per cent. Per cent. Germany (a) 40.7 44.2 37.1 7.7 7.3 5.6 France (a) 28.9 31.0 31.6 8.7 7.2 6.7 Argentine Republic 22.6 29.1 31.2(b) 22.8 17.5 17.5(b) Netherlands (c) 15.4 24.8 21.8 4.7 12.1 9.6 Belgium (d) 13.2 18.7 19.4 7.2 10.6 9.6 Italy 14.6 18.8 16.0 10.1 8.7 6.9 China (exclusive of Hong Kong, Macao, and leased territories). 14.8 14.6 15.7(b) 17.2 8.8 9.0(b) Japan (including Formosa and Japanese leased territories in China) (e). 14.5 16.2 13.4 19.1 7.3 6.2 Brazil (f) 12.5 16.2 13.4 18.6 19.1 15.4 Egypt (g) 9.8 16.4 12.6 32.1 27.9 22.3
NOTES.—The above figures for 1913 represent the exports from the British Isles as a whole, while the figures for 1925 and 1929 relate to exports from Great Britain and Northern Ireland only. Owing to territorial changes, the above figures for 1913 in respect of France and Germany are not strictly comparable with those stated in respect of the later years. (See also Notes (a) and (d) below). The above percentages are, so far as possible, comparable, but owing to the exports from the United Kingdom being valued f.o.b. at British ports, while the total imports are valued as at the frontier of the importing country, the percentage underestimate to a corresponding extent the proportions of imports from the United Kingdom to the total imports of the respective countries. (a) In 1925 and 1929, exports to the Saar Territory are included in United Kingdom exports to Germany, but the imports into that Territory are included in the French figures and not in the German figures for total imports. (b) Particulars relate to 1928. (c) The total imports into the Netherlands in 1913 include a very considerable quantity of goods which, although recorded as for consumption, were subsequently re-exported. Also the values per unit assigned to the commodities imported were official values determined many years earlier, frequently very far from actual values. (d) The particulars for 1925 and 1929 relate to the Belgo-Luxembourg Economic Union. In 1913 Luxembourg was included in the German Economic Union. (e) The total imports are exclusive of imports into Japanese leased territories in China, and also of trade between Japan and her Colonies, and Formosa and other Japanese Colonies. (f) Brazil accords duty-free admission to fruit from Argentine, Chile and the United States of America, while charging duty on fruit from all other countries, but accords full most-favoured-nation treatment to the United Kingdom in all other respects. (g) The particulars for 1913 relate to Egypt and the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan together. Imports into Egypt from the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan are not included in the total foreign trade of Egypt in 1925 and 1929.