asked the Minister for Agriculture what quantity of creamery butter lay in cold storage when the first quantitive restriction was placed on Irish butter exports to Britain recently.
108.
Written Answers. - Cold Storage of Creamery Butter.
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asked the Minister for Agriculture what quantity of creamery butter lies in cold storage at the present time.
The reply to Questions Nos. 107 and 108 is as follows:
At the end of November 1961 when an "anti-dumping duty" was imposed on imports of Irish butter into the United Kingdom stocks amounted to 16,520 tons. At the end of February 1962, when that duty was removed, stocks amounted to 10,844 tons.
Stocks at 15th March, the latest date for which complete figures are available, were 9,511 tons.