HC Deb 07 December 1951 vol 494 cc329-31W
Major Lloyd

asked the Minister of Food which countries purchase sugar from this country and the respective quantities supplied over the twelve-month period

EXPORTS OF SUGAR AND IMPORTS OF CHOCOLATE AND SUGAR CONFECTIONERY AND SWEETENED BISCUITS FROM THE COUNTRIES TO WHICH SUGAR WAS EXPORTED DURING THE TWELVE MONTHS NOVEMBER, 1950, TO OCTOBER, 1951.
Exports of sugar (produce and manufactures of the U.K.) Imports
Chocolate and sugar confectionery (including fondant, etc.) Sweetened biscuits
tons tons tons
Austria 641 152 339
Belgium 224 5,866 12,072
France 44 4,596 344
French Somaliland 447
French possessions in India 492
Greece 937
Germany—Western 78,789 91 93
Iceland 1099
Italy 842 38 4
Trieste 2896
Norway 6020 1,088 5
Portugal 69
Spain 123 6
Canary Island 704
Sweden 661 3,113 1,365
Switzerland 81,905 165 2
Yugoslavia 5905
Iran 119,868
Israel 7,133 368 1
Lebanon 17,916
Liberia 25
Morocco 5,306 96
Saudi Arabia 3,654
Syria 6,757
Ethiopia 1,432
Union of South Africa 5 8,454
Siam (Thailand) 2018
Aden 5,633
Bermuda 516
British West Africa:
Gambia 1,530
Sierra Leone 2,108
Gold Coast 16,835
Nigeria 11,548
British East Africa:
Tanganyika 1,062
Zanzibar and Pemba 2
Kenya 2,818 13
Uganda 1
Nyasaland 2
British West Indies:
Leeward Islands 3
Windward Islands 78
Trinidad and Tobago 11
Barbados 16
British Honduras 6
British Guiana 29
Falkland Islands 116
Gibraltar 1,462 1
Malta and Gozo 7,389

to the last convenient date; and the respective quantities of biscuits, chocolates and sweet confectionery containing sugar imported from these countries over the same period.

Major Lloyd George

The following is the information:

Exports of sugar (produce and manufactures of the U.K.) Imports
Chocolate and sugar confectionery (including fondant etc.) Sweetened biscuits
tons tons tons
Cyprus 5,102
Singapore 44,481 1
Federated Malay State 51,310
British North Borneo 2,699
Brunei 230
Sarawak 4,884
Hong Kong 7,454
Seychelles 100
Channel Islands 2,739 1
Irish Republic 1,535 23,953 497
Anglo-Egyptian Sudan 49,966
Egypt 2,669
Netherlands 297 72,694 7,677
Netherlands Antilles 113
Netherlands New Guinea 70
Finland 193
Poland 1 208 40
Bahrein, Kuwait, Quatar and Truciai Oman 5,349
Muscat and Oman (ex-Trucial Oman) 938
India 56,580
Pakistan 40,170
Ceylon 14,355 76
Burma 1
Libya 10,678
Eritrea 3,651
Jordan 3,514
East Indonesia 25
Korea 20
Japan 80
Australia 4 3269
New Zealand 9,500
Papua 20
Canada 7 12
Uruguay 1
Southern Rhodesia 2
Iraq 47,117
TOTAL 762,739 124,452 22,444