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82.
Mr. Keenan
asked the President of the Board of Trade what stocks of cotton were held and owned by the Raw Cotton Commission on the nearest available date.
Mr. Amory
On 3rd July, 1954, the Raw Cotton Commission's stocks amounted to 101,608 tons in the United Kingdom and 31,726 tons purchased but not yet arrived. A considerable proportion of these stocks has already been sold for forward delivery, but it is not the Commission's normal practice to divulge the amount of such sales.