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Oil (Dollar Transactions)

Volume 437: debated on Tuesday 13 May 1947

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54.

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what dollar exchange, approximately is annually secured by Britain by the sale of Near East oil.

None net. We spend more dollars on buying oil than we receive from selling it.