HC Deb 21 February 1951 vol 484 c190W
83. Mr. Bossom

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies how much rubber has been shipped to China from Colonial Territories since 1st July last year.

Mr. J. Griffiths

As I informed the hon. Member for Hornsey (Mr. Gammans) on 1st February, approximately 70,000 tons of natural rubber were imported into China from United Kingdom Territories in the Far East during the last six months of 1950. I regret that complete statistics more recent than those are not yet available, but my information is that shipments of the order of 12,500 tons have been sent since the beginning of the year.