HC Deb 27 March 1929 vol 226 c2438W
Mr. T. GRIFFITHS

asked the President of the Board of Trade the quantities of grey unbleached cotton yarns and bleached and dyed cotton yarns exported to foreign countries and British possessions, respectively, for the year 1928?

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

The total weight of grey unbleached cotton yarns of United Kingdom manufacture exported from this country during the year 1928 and consigned to foreign countries amounted to 130,000,000 lbs., and that to British countries to 20,000,000 lbs. The exports of bleached and dyed cotton yarns consigned to foreign countries during the same period amounted to 6,000,000 lbs. and to British countries to 13,000,000 lbs.