§ Lieut. - Commander KENWORTHYasked the President of the Board of Trade if he is aware that prices of illuminated glassware, especially of a fancy type, imported from CzechoSlovakia, have been recently reduced, and in some cases at 20 per cent. below the prices charged for similar goods of German manufacture; if so, whether, if the German goods have to bear the duty of 33 per cent., it will mean the transference of the bulk of this business from Germany to Czecho-Slovakia; and, if this be the case, in what way it will assist the production of these goods in Great Britain?
§ Mr. BALDWINhave no information as to the recent course of prices of Czecho-Slovakian glassware which would lead me to suppose that the imposition of a duty under Part II of the Safeguarding of Industries Act on German glassware would have the effect suggested in the question.