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Sir A. Knox
asked the President of the Board of Trade the figures of the export and import trade between the Irish Free State and Britain in the last 10 years, and also similar figures of trade between Northern Ireland and Britain?
Mr. Dalton
The following table gives the value of imports and exports of merchandise in the trade between the United Kingdom and Eire from 1933 to 1939, no later particulars being available for publication. Northern Ireland is part of the United Kingdom, and no separate statistics are kept of trade between Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
| Year. | Imports. | Exports of United Kingdom goods. | Exports of imported merchandise. | |
| £000 | £000 | £000 | ||
| 1933 | … | 17,791 | 19,034 | 4,635 |
| 1934 | … | 17,200 | 19,525 | 5,280 |
| 1935 | … | 18,757 | 20,240 | 4,920 |
| 1936 | … | 20,365 | 21,072 | 4,902 |
| 1937 | … | 21,082 | 21,596 | 5,716 |
| 1938 | … | 22,965 | 20,282 | 5,703 |
| 1939 | … | 25,262 | 22,903 | 5,474 |