RUSSIAN BUTTER

Stratford Evening Post, Volume II, Issue 225, 21 April 1933, Page 5

RUSSIAN BUTTER

Prohibition of Imports PRICES NOT AFFECTED Press Association. —Copyright. London, April 18. —The Prohibition of Russian butler imports has not affected prices yet, as Continental imports are again very large. The total arrivals from Soviet Russia, Denmark and the Baltic States during the past week equal 100,000 to 120,000 boxes in excess of the corresponding period of 1932. The expiration of the Anglo-Russian trade agreement ends the diplomatic immunity of the Soviet trade delegation. Henceforth it must obtain a permit to remain in England and report regularly to the police, like other aliens. If the embargo is imposed on April 2G Australia and New Zealand arc not likely to greatly benefit because Soviet exports to Britain will continue to decline drastically. The Sun understands that Thornton’s and MacDonald’s immediate release would cause Britain to reconsider and probably remove the embargo before it operates. Russian imports into Britain last year totalled just under £20,000,000, ever 30 per cent, of Russia’s total exports to all countries. Britain’s exports to Russia were about £10,500,000. Last year’s chief imports of commodities on which the embargo has been placed, were:— £ Petroleum 2,200,000 Raw cotton 390,000 Butter 1,235,000 Grain • 1,005,000 Timber 5,853,000