§ Mr. SMITHERSasked the Secretary to the Overseas Trade Department when the economic mission to the Far East will return to this country; will it make a report; and will that report be made public?
§ Mr. GILLETTUnder present arrangements, the trade mission to the Far East will return to this country towards the end of March or the beginning of April. The answer to both the second and third parts of the question is in the affirmative.
STATEMENT I. Statement showing the total quantities and declared values and the average declared values (c.i.f.) of the undermentioned commodities imported into Great Britain and Northern Ireland, registered during the period October-December, 1930, as consigned from the Soviet U[...]ion (Russia). Commodity. October-December, 1930. Quantity. Declared value. Average declared value (c.i.f.). Cwts. £ £ s d. Wheat … … … 15,381,142 4,409,165 5 9 Barley … … … 3,433,276 650,485 3 9½ Oats … … … 2,289,632 492,079 4 3½ Buckwheat … … … 2,000 800 8 0 Butter … … … 37,947 199,731 5 5 3 Bacon … … 876 2,696 3 1 7 Poultry, dead … … … 10,806 53,439 4 18 11 Apples, raw … … … 6 5 * * This figure would have no significance. NOTE.—No imports of Rye, Maize, Eggs, Poultry, alive, or Sugar, refined or unrefined, were recorded during the above period as consigned from the Soviet Union. The imports of fowls, as such, are not separately distinguished in the official trade returns of the United Kingdom.