Imported American Coal (Prices)

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Coal Industry – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 27 November 1947.

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Photo of Mr Hugh Gaitskell Mr Hugh Gaitskell , Leeds South 12:00, 27 November 1947

The price of the coal imported from America, as I have already explained, is fixed so that it will sell here at the same price as British coal. That is obviously a fair thing to do; the burden is then evenly spread among all British consumers.