§ Sir B. PETOasked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Trade whether he will give the best estimate obtainable of the total value of manufactured goods imported into the Dominions from foreign countries for the last year for which figures are obtainable, so far as this estimate can be made from the information at the disposal of the Department?
§ Mr. W. R. SMITHThe latest year in respect of which there is available a classification of the imports into the self-governing Dominions of the British Empire from foreign countries that will furnish an approximate estimate of the proportion of such imports that consisted of goods wholly or partly manufactured is 1925, or a trade year ending in 1925. For that period, the particulars are as follows:
adopted in the Trade Accounts of the United Kingdom. Similar particulars relating to Newfoundland are not at present available.