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PARLIAMENTARY QUESTION
for WRITTEN answer on 1 July 1977
HKG D
The draft reply should reach the Parliamentary. Office through your Under-Secretary by
Korom
NALD
Monday 4 July 1979
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.
Mr Evan Luard
The information requested is as follows:
January - December 1976
Unworked raw ivory
Worked ivory and ivory
articles
Weight (lbs)
Value (HK$ )
1,585,388
no estimate available
January
March 1977
113,080,204 13,496,874
Unworked raw ivory
Worked ivory and ivory
articles
Weight (lbs)
289,103
no estimate available
Value (HK)
27,526,683
1,
,745,686
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