Mr. H. Wilsonasked the President of the Board of Trade to state for 1954, 1955, and 1956 the imports of raw cotton into the United Kingdom from Nigeria, Rhodesia and Nyasaland, Uganda, Tanganyika, Aden, India, Pakistan, Sudan, Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, Egypt, United States of America, and others, together with the totals for the Commonwealth countries listed above, excluding Sudan.
§ Sir D. EcclesThe information is as follows:
cotton industry about the recent negotiations with India, Hong Kong, and Pakistan about exports of cotton goods from those countries to the United Kingdom.
§ Sir D. EcclesI am seeing members of the Cotton Mission together with the Chairman of the Cotton Board on Tuesday, 4th June, and I am not, therefore, yet in a position to make a statement.