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asked the President of the Board of Trade if he will tabulate in a statement to the House the items of import-export trade with the Soviet Union for the years 1946–47, giving in each case actual volume and values of such trading.
I will circulate the desired particulars in the OFFICIAL REPORT.
Following is the information:
| IMPORTS INTO THE UNITED KINGDOM FROM THE SOVIET UNION. | |||||
| Description. | Unit of Quantity. | Year 1946. | January-September, 1947. | ||
| Quantity. | Value. | Quantity. | Value. | ||
| £'000. | £'000. | ||||
| Wood and Timber:— | |||||
| Sawn softwood | Standard | 11,873 | 489 | 6,745 | 320 |
| Pitprops | Piled cub. fathms. | 4,635 | 111 | 10,688 | 277 |
| Raw Cotton | Thous. lb. | 6,092 | 387 | 24,081 | 1,986 |
| Cotton linters | Thous. lb. | 3,749 | 145 | 15,439 | 587 |
| Cotton waste | Ton | 2,552 | 192 | 1,244 | 145 |
| Camels' hair | Thous. lb. | 2,733 | 611 | 1,179 | 323 |
| Undressed hides and skins | Cwt. | 3,862 | 1,089 | 2,928 | 615 |
| Raw hair | Cwt. | 23,384 | 510 | 16,560 | 331 |
| Bristles | Cwt. | — | — | 3,479 | 244 |
| Non-ferrous metals and manufactures. | Value | — | 233 | — | 136 |
| Motor spirit | Thous. gals. | — | — | 12,830 | 429 |
| Paper, cardboard, etc. | Ton | — | — | 5,106 | 254 |
| All other articles | Value | — | 1,153 | — | 494 |
| Total | Value | — | 4,920 | — | 6,141 |
| EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM TO THE SOVIET UNION. | |||||
| Description. | Unit of Quantity. | Year 1946. | January-September, 1947. | ||
| Quantity. | Value. | Quantity. | Value. | ||
| £'000. | £'000. | ||||
| Iron and steel and manufactures thereof. | Ton | 1,732 | 175 | 2,541 | 167 |
| Unwrought tin | Ton | 1,474 | 545 | — | — |
| Unwrought copper | Ton | 5,793 | 389 | — | — |
| Cutlery, hardware, implements and instruments. | Value | — | 371 | — | 161 |
| Electrical goods and apparatus | Value | — | 688 | — | 472 |
| Boilers and boiler-house plant | Ton | 10,870 | 2,091 | 23,776 | 3,672 |
| Electrical machinery | Ton | 5,130 | 1,873 | 8,890 | 3,020 |
| Cranes, hoists and other lifting machinery | Ton | 3,219 | 455 | 1,397 | 158 |
| Other machinery | Ton | 501 | 489 | 8,304 | 2,394 |
| Woven woollen tissues | Thous. sq. yds. | 1,404 | 346 | 36 | 7 |
| Woven worsted tissues | Thous. sq. yds | 328 | 87 | 4 | 1 |
| Other textile manufactures | Value | — | 400 | — | 97 |
| Leather and manufactures thereof | Value | — | 306 | — | — |
| Locomotives | No. | 63 | 225 | 44 | 107 |
| Ton | 934 | 474 | |||
| All other articles | Value | — | 643 | — | 406 |
| Total | Value | — | 9,083 | — | 10,662 |