HC Deb 24 December 1929 vol 233 cc2113-4W
Commander BELLAIRS

asked the President of the Board of Trade what is the total wheat and flour, in equivalent wheat cwts., exported from the United States and Canada together; and how much of it is to the United Kingdom?

Mr. W. R. SMITH

The average annual quantity of wheat and wheat-flour (expressed in the equivalent of wheat) exported from Canada and the United States together during the years 1926–1928, after excluding the movements of wheat between those two countries so far as the available information permits, amounted to 276 million cwts., the imports of wheat and wheat-flour (expressed in the equivalent of wheat) into the United Kingdom during the same years, registered as consigned from those two countries, amounted on the average to 77 million cwts.