§ Mr. Bingasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will circulate in the OFFICIAL REPORT the figure accepted by his Department as the normal civilian requirements of China for imports of penicillin, streptomycin, sulpha drugs, and other antibiotics together with the actual quantities of those drugs permitted by his Department between the publication of the embargo list in June, 1951. and the latest convenient date to be exported from the United Kingdom to China.
§ Mr. MackesonThe permissible export by the United Kingdom to meet China's normal civilian requirements of antibiotics and sulpha drugs has been300W estimated by reference to our exports to China and Hong Kong of these drugs in the first six months of 1950. Licences are granted to exporters up to the amount of their exports to those territories in that period, and, additional exports have been licensed to Hong Kong to meet special needs certified by the Hong Kong authorities. The values of export licences granted accordingly during the period 1st July, 1951, to 16th December, 1952, for antibiotics and sulpha drugs were £889,700 and £417,900, respectively.