§ Brigadier-General CLIFTON BROWNasked the Minister of Agriculture what was the amount of bounty-fed wheat and oats imported into this country from Germany in 1927–28, and up to the latest date for which information is available in 1929; and what was the amount of the bounty given in those yearn to the exporters?
Mr. BUXTONExports of wheat and oats from Germany to the United Kingdom in the cereal year 1927–28, amounted to 8,643 tons and 46,207 tons respectively, and in the first nine months of 1929, to 72,377 tons and 71,682 tons. The rates of import duty on which the values of the import certificates have been based were equivalent to 2s. 6d. per cwt. for wheat and oats throughout 1927 and 1928, and up to the 10th July, 1929, when the rate for wheat was increased to 3s. 3d. per cwt. and for oats to 3s. per cwt.