Tobacco Re-exports

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons am 12:00 am ar 13 Mai 1947.

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Photo of Sir Walter Fletcher Sir Walter Fletcher , Bury 12:00, 13 Mai 1947

That is a considerable figure to soft currency areas. Will the Chancellor of the Exchequer say what means he proposes to take so that we do not expend our dollar loan in order to sell tobacco and cigarettes to soft currency countries where they, in turn, sell them to the public at a much cheaper price than that at which the consumer is able to buy them here?