§ Mr. LOGANasked the President of the Board of Trade if he can give the figures showing how much of the £10,500,000 of United Kingdom exports to Argentina in 1932 represented purchases by Argentine railways operated with British capital; and will he arange to obtain in future from the British agents of those railways the necessary information on the Customs declarations when those railways are shipping to the Argentine goods and productions of the United Kingdom?
§ Mr. RUNCIMAN:The answer to the first part of the question is in the negative, and the suggestion in the second part would, I fear, be impracticable. I understand that the British railways operating in Argentina obtain by far the greatest part of their requirements of imported goods in the United Kingdom, and that there is no doubt that in ordinary times their purchases represent a substantial proportion of the United Kingdom exports to Argentina.