GERMAN IMPORTS OF METALS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 97, 20 January 1944, Page 6

GERMAN IMPORTS OF METALS

(British Official Wireless.) (Received January 19, 5 30 p.m.) RUGBY, January 18.

Figures of German imports of steel, wolfram, tin, and chrome, have been given by the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Economic Warfare, in reply to a House of Commons question. Mr. Dingle Foot said: “In 1943, in addition to small quantities of special steels. Germany imported from Sweden approximately 20 per cent, of her total consumption of iron ore. The House will; however, have observed from recent announcements in the Press that Swedish deliveries of iron ore will be substantially lowered in 1944. “In 1943 Germany obtained from Portugal about 50 per cent, of her total consumption of wolfram, from Spaiu about 40 per cent, of her wolfram and an insignificant quantity of tin, and from Turkey, in terms of Chrome oxide content, about 30 per cent, of her chrome;” He added : “The House is already aware of the steps which are taken to prevent wolfram in the Iberian Peninsula and chrome in Turkey reaching Germany. It would not be in the public interest to announce what other steps the British Government is taking or contemplates taking in the future.”