§ Commander BELLAIRSasked the Under-Secretary of State for India the total volume of the iron and steel production of India for one. year; the total imports for the same year, specifying the quantities that came from Great Britain and the United States of America; the total volume of the manufactures of iron and steel in India; and the total volume imported, specifying the amounts coming from Great Britain and the United States of America?
§ Earl WINTERTONThe steel production of India for the year 1922–23 was about 125,000 tons. No figures of the amount of iron or iron and steel manufactures produced in India are available. The total volume of iron and steel and iron and steel manufactures imported into India during 1922–23 was 771,197 tons. Of this, 383,352 tons came from the United Kingdom and 38,239 tons from the United States of America. Practically all the iron and steel imported had gone through some process of manufacture.