HC Deb 07 August 1925 vol 187 cc1723-4W
Mr. DUCKWORTH

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department, if he can give the price of raw cotton and raw rubber in the United States in 1913, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1925?

Sir B. CHADWICK

The average prices quoted in New York for raw cotton and raw rubber in the years 1913 and 1920 to 1924 and in the month of June, 1925, were as follow:

Period. Raw Cotton, Middling Upland. Raw Rubber, Para Island Fine.
Cents per lb. Cents per lb.
1913 12.8 80.7
1920 33.9 33.3
1921 15.2 18.2
1922 21.3 18.3
1923 29.4 24.9
1924 28.7 21.1
1925 (June) 23.4 61.9