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Nigeria (Palm Kernels).

Oral Answers to Questions — Ireland. – in the House of Commons at on 25 July 1922.

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Dr. MURRAY:

11.

asked the Secretary of State for the Colonies what is the market value of palm kernels to-day at Lagos, Nigeria, and the percentage of export duty, excluding the differential duty upon kernels shipped to a foreign port?

Photo of Mr Winston Churchill Mr Winston Churchill , Dundee

The latest information which I possess is that in May the average price of palm kernels at Lagos was about £11 a ton. The export duty is £2 a ton; so the export duty was about 18 per cent. of the then average Lagos price.

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