§ 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. BottomleyYes. The list set out below relates only to goods of which the Government is the sole importer; it does not include goods imported by statutory bodies or goods of which the Government is the major, but not the sole importer:
Soft wood Dried fruits: True Hemp Currants Jute and jute goods Pears Sulphur, pyrites, certain fertilisers and fertiliser raw materials Prunes Sultanas Apricots Raisins Chrome ore Bacon and Ham Lead metal, unwrought Tea (except China tea) Zinc metal, unwrought Raw cocoa Copper (unwrought) Rice Virgin aluminium Apples Oilcake and meals Bananas Rice Bran Wheat Fish meal Flour Whalemeat meal Rye Meat meal Coarse Grains Bone meal Wheat offals Locust beans Sugar Potatoes (ware) Canned fish: Orange juice (welfare) Sardines Carcase meat and offal Barracouta Canned corned meat Herring Butter Tunny Cheese (rationed) Brisling Condensed milk Sild Dried milk Pilchard Block milk Crab Buttermilk powder Crawfish Whey powder Salmon Coffee Starch and starch products: Animal fats Benniseed Farina Copra Farina dextrine Coconut oil Maize starch Cotton seed Cassava starch Cotton seed oil Tapioca flour Groundnuts Canned fruit, the following: Groundnut oil Herring oil Peaches Other fish oils Pears Illipe nuts Apricots Kapok seed Pineapple Linseed Two fruits Linseed oil Fruit salad Maize oil Fruit cocktail Palm kernels Grapefruit Palm oil Mandarin oranges Soya beans Grapes Sunflower seed Eggs in shell Sunflower seed oil Frozen egg Shea nuts Dried egg Whale oil Dried albumen Dried yolk Glycerine yolk Medicinal glucose