Telephone Equipment (Exports)

HC Deb 25 May 1950 vol 475 c261W

28. Mr. Langford-Holt

asked the President of the Board of Trade what was the value of exports of telephone equipment during 1949 to the sterling area, to soft currency countries, to hard currency countries and dollar countries, respectively.

Mr. H. Wilson

Exports of telegraph and telephone equipment in 1949 were as follows:

	£
To the dollar area	602,000
To other highly desirable markets (i.e. Belgium, Luxembourg, Belgian Congo, Switzerland and Iran)	213,000
To the sterling area	10,640,000
To all other countries	2,653,000