HC Deb 26 March 1969 vol 780 c327W
Mr. Biggs-Davison

asked the President of the Board of Trade from what other countries Rhodesian supplies of chrome have been replaced since the imposition of sanctions.

Mr. Dell

Most chromium is imported into this country in the form of chrome ore or ferro-chrome. In the last two years our imports of both have been lower than in the two years before the illegal declaration of independence. Comparing these periods, imports of chrome ore from all significant supplying countries have been lower. There have been several changes in the pattern of our supplies of ferro-chrome, including higher imports from the United States, Sweden, West Germany, the Netherlands and Czechoslovakia.