HC Deb 16 July 1956 vol 556 cc68-9W
Mr. H. Wilson

asked the President of the Board of Trade to state for 1938, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954, and 1955, respectively, the quantities of raw cotton, and the percentage of the total imported from each principal colonial supplying area, from the United States of America,

IMPORTS OF RAW COTTON INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM
1938 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955
From all sources (centals of 100 lb.) … 12,067,830 10,110,174 5,947,422 7,474,303 8,336,837 6,641,457
of which: percentage of total percentage of total percentage of total percentage of total percentage of total percentage of total
Nigeria … 0.8 3.0 7.3 5.3 6.8 11.4
Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland … 0.3 0.2 0.6 0.7 0.5 0.1
Uganda … 0.7 4.6 6.2 2.7 2.7 0.6
Tanganyika … 0.4 0.5 1.6 2.4 0.4 0.6
Aden … — 0.3 0.6 0.5 1.1 1.2
India … 13.8 0.8 0.6 1.0 0.9 3.8
Pakistan … 4.6 5.5 8.1 4.3 4.3
Sudan … 7.0 16.5 13.5 13.6 9.1 11.2
Soviet Union … 0.1 — — 0.2 3.0 7.2
Egypt … 21.4 13.7 4.9 9.0 9.0 4.3
U.S.A. … 36.8 21.8 36.7 25.8 30.8 27.5