1 July 1977
Mr Tom Arnold (Hazel Grove): To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, how much ivory, both by volume and price, was imported into Hong Kong for the period during which figures are most recently available.
No 717
REVAN LUARD
The information requested is as follows:
January-December 1976
Weight (lbs)
Value (HK$)
Unworked raw ivory
,585,388
113,080,204
Worked ivory and ivory
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no estimate available
13,496,874
January-March 1977
Unworked raw ivory
Worked ivory and ivory
articles
Weight (lbs)
289,103
no estimate available
Value (HK$)
27,526,683
1,745,686