§ Mr. ARBUTHNOTasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will state the quantities of Egyptian cotton consumed by Great Britain, the United States, and the Continent, respectively, during the latest year for which statistics are available?
Mr. BUXTONNo exact figures can be given. The total exports of raw cotton from Egypt in 1909, however, amounted to 6,149,000 cwts., and the quantity imported into the United Kingdom from Egypt and retained in the same year amounted to 2,756,000 cwts. The total imports of cotton into the United States from Egypt in 1909 amounted to 648,000 cwts., but a certain amount of Egyptian cotton may have been received from other sources, and some of the small re-exports of imported cotton may have been of Egyptian origin. Nearly the whole of the Egyptian cotton exports which are not taken by this country or by1666W the United States are consumed on the Continent of Europe.