§ 71. Sir W. Smithersasked the President of the Board of Trade if he will give a list of articles of food and commodities of which the Government are the sole importers.
§ Mr. BelcherFollowing is the information:
- Cereals and flour
- Sugar.
- Oils and fats.
- Bacon and ham.
- Carcase meat.
31 - Dried egg.
- Butter.
- Cheese.
- Processed milk.
- Starch.
- Tea.
- Coffee.
- Raw cocoa.
- Dried fruit (except African dates).
- Edible nut kernels.
- Peels in brine.
- Animal feeding stuffs
- Dried onion.
- Citric acid.
- Tartaric acid.
- Cream of tartar.
- Frozen white fish.
- Canned fruit.
- Canned tomatoes.
- Citrus fruit (oranges, grapefruit and lemons).
- Eating apples.
- Bananas.
- Rice.
- Canned salmon.
- Canned pilchards.
- Canned sardines.
- Canned crayfish.
- Canned brisling.
- Canned sild.
- Canned crab.
- Ware potatoes.
- Timber (except for certain special types).
- Raw cotton.
- Flax.
- Raw jute and jute goods (from India).
- Hard and soft hemps.
- Cotton waste and linters.
- Kraft liner board.
- Building boards.
- Pulpwood.
- Woodpulp for paper-making.
- Esparto grass.
- Raw hides and calf skins.
- Raw goat skins.
- East Indian tanned kips.
- Tanning materials (with minor exceptions) Sulphur.
- Pyrites.
- Phosphate rock (for the making of fertilisers), basic slag, potash, nitrates, and manufactured fertilisers.
- Molasses.
- Ethyl alcohol.
- Acetone.
- Acetic acid.
- Acetic anhyclride.
- Butyl alcohol.
- Rosin.
- Liquid rosin.
- Turpentine.
- Pine oil.
- Tung oil.
- Oiticica oil.
- Manila copal.
- Caustic potash solid Casein.
- Chrome ore.
- Lead.
- Zinc.
- Copper (blister and electrolytic).
- Virgin aluminium.
- Pig iron.
- Steel.