§ 79. Sir H. Roperasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer to state, under appropriate headings, the amount of Import 176W Duty paid on animal feeding stuffs, including cereals used mainly for animal feeding, imported during 1955.
§ Mr. H. BrookeThe figures for the main products used as animal feeding stuffs are as follows:
Receipts of Import Duty in 1955 Import List Description £ Hay and straw Exempt Locust beans, whole, kibbled or mealed 67,608 Lucerne meal 202 Cereal by-products— Bran, pollard, sharps and middlings 660,433 Rice bran, rice meal and cargo broken rice 157,633 Other sorts 2,766 Oilseed cake and meal (excluding husk meal) 1,197,935 Fishmeal 30,642 Meat meal and mixtures of meat meal with bone meal 104,564 Feeding stuff for animals, not elsewhere specified 64,938 Total 2,286,721 *Cereals, unmilled (including cereals for sowing)— Barley 112,499 Maize (other than flat, white) Exempt Oats 1,988 Sorghums (including milo, dari, durra, kaffir corn or guinea maize 629,718 Total 744,205 *These figures are the total duty receipts: no distinction is made between cereals imported as animal feeding stuffs and those imported for other uses.