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Lieut.-Colonel Bromley Davenport
asked the President of the Board of Trade to give statistics of cotton manufactures imported into this country from Hong Kong during each of the past six months; and how these imports compare with those for similar periods in 1951.
Mr. P. Thorneycroft
The information is as follows:
| IMPORTS FROM HONG KONG OF COTTON MANUFACTURES* | |||
| — | 1951 | 1953 | |
| £ | £ | ||
| July | … | 575,604 | 40,241 |
| August | … | 486,065 | 31,222 |
| September | … | 471,112 | 63,531 |
| October | … | 355,056 | 57,740 |
| November | … | 165,264 | 74,929 |
| December | … | 76,254 | 87,802 |
| *Including clothing. | |||