HC Deb 29 July 1966 vol 732 cc348-9W
Mr. Ron Lewis

asked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will clarify the rules regarding investments outside the scheduled territories taking the form of the export stock-in-trade free of payment.

Mr. Jay

Exports of goods, including exports of stock-in-trade, free of payment are permitted only when they meet the criterion, which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced in his Budget speech, of an early, substantial and continuing benefit to the United Kingdom balance of payments.

In addition it is always open to a firm to export stock-in-trade on credit terms. The period of credit normally allowed is

UNITED KINGDOM IMPORTS
1964 1965
Weight Value Weight Value
Tons £'000 Tons £'000
Hides and skins, undressed—
Bovine (including buffalo) and equine hides, excluding calf skins and kip skins 39,956 6,350 41,914 6,768
Calfskins and kipskins 4,634 1,380 5.286 1,918
Coat skins and kid skins (except Yemen, Mongolian and Tibetan) 3,241 2,035 2,779 1,680
Sheep and lamb skins (except Astrakhan, Caracul, Persian lamb, broadtail and similar skins) 29,657 10,799 24,839 8,456
Horns, antlers, hooves, nails, claws and beaks of animals, unworked or simply prepared but not cut to shape 5,608 263 5,532 289