§ Mr. D. G. SOMERVILLEasked the President of the Board of Trade the percentage of exports of British and American manufactured goods, respectively, of their entire manufacturing outputs in 1929 and in 1913, respectively?
§ Mr. W. GRAHAMParticulars relating to the years specified in the question are not available for either this country or the United States. The figures stated in the reply which I gave on 17th December last to a question asked by the hon. and gallant Member for the Isle of Wight (Captain P. Macdonald) indicate that the
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— Declared Value. Proportion of Total Imports. (a) Feeding-Stuffs for Animals:* £ Per cent. Total Imports … … … … 9,180,571 100.0 Of which consigned from: British countries … … … … 3,359,698 36.3 Foreign countries … … … … 5,820,873 63.4 (b) Fertilisers: † Total Imports … … … … 2,883,294 100.0 Of which consigned from: British countries … … … … 111,923 3.9 Foreign countries … … … … 2,771,371 96.1 * As so classified in the Trade Returns of the United Kingdom. † So far as the information is available from the Trade Returns of the United Kingdom and including phosphate of lime and rock phosphate. proportion of exports to the total of the goods produced in the United Kingdom was about 27 per cent. in the year 1924. The information obtained in connection with the First Census of Production gives, for the corresponding proportion in 1907, a figure of about.30 per cent., and it is believed that a yet higher figure would apply to the year 1913. In the ease of the United States, a figure of approximately 9 per cent. represents, so far as can be estimated, the proportion of exports to total goods produced, both immediately prior to the War and in recent years. The separate comparison of manufactured goods, apart from other goods produced, cannot be made on closely comparable lines for the two countries.