§ Mr. LUMLEYasked the President of the Board of Trade what was the total value of the reduction in duty payable in respect of British goods entering each of the Dominions and Colonies which grant preferential rebates to Great Britain for the latest available year?
§ Sir B. CHADWICKThe amount of the rebate on preferential imports into Australia from the United Kingdom in the trade year ended June, 1925, was £7,975,000. The corresponding rebate on the imports into South Africa in the calendar year 1925 was £643,000, of which £155,000 was in respect of the last five months of the year, after the changes in the tariff took effect. Corresponding figures have not been published by the Canadian and New Zealand authorities, but my Department have estimated that the amount of the rebate in 1925 on preferential imports from the United Kingdom into Canada was approximately £2,500,000, and into New Zealand £2,850,000. I am unable to give estimates of the amount of the rebate on imports into other parts of the Empire which grant a preferential rebate.