SOVIET HARD HIT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 92, 20 April 1933, Page 11

SOVIET HARD HIT

TOTAL OF £20,000,000

30 PER CENT. OF TRADE

(British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 10. The text, of the proclamation under tho Russian Goods Import Prohibition' Act declares that "on and after the 26th day' of ■April, 1933, the import tatiou into the United Kingdom of goods of classes or descriptions specified in the schedule hereto, grown, produced, or manufactured in the Union of Soviet 'Socialist Republics, is prohibited." The schedule above referred to includes butter, wheat, barley, oats, and maize in grain, poultry, and game, cotton, raw, including manufactured cotton waste and unbleached cotton, lintera (?), petroleum oils, timber (hewn, sawn, planed, or dressed, including pitprops, pitwood, staves, and sleepers), and articles manufactured wholly or partly of wood and timber, namely plywood, builders' woodwork, including window frames, doors, gates, etc.j and parts thereof. The proclamation affectg about 80 j>er cent, of Russian imports intor-Bri-

tain. These last year' totalled just under £20,000,000, or over 30 per cent. of Russia's total, exports to all countries. Britain's exports to Russia were about £10,500,000. ' '-. ■ As for the chief commodities on which the embargo has been placed the following approximate figures show the value of imports from Russia last year:—Petroleum, £2,200,000; raw cotton, £390,000; butter, £1,235,000; I grain. £1.605.000: timber, £5,553,000.