CHEMICALS &c.

Hydrochloric acid.

Nitric acid.

Boracic acid.

Citric acid and tartaric acid, also tartar and seignette salts and other tartrates

of potassium, sodium, and ammonium.

Caustic potash (solid or liquid).

Potassium chloride.

Iodine, potassium iodine, sodium iodine and ammonium iodine.

Barium oxide and barium superoxide.

Chloride of lime.

Potassium sulphate.

Calcium sulphate.

Potassium nitrate.

Ammonium nitrate.

Potassium carbonate.

Chrome acetate and iron acetate.

Arsenite of potassium and sodium.

Tartar emetic and other compounds of antimony, not being colours.
Thorium nitrate and other compounds of rare metallic earths.

Tungstic acid.

Salts of gold, platinum and radium.

Zinc sulphate and zinc chloride.

Copper oxide and cuprous oxide.

Nickel oxide and nickel sulphate.

Lead acetate (white or yellow) and lead vinegar.

Lead oxide and peroxide of lead.

Salts of tin and stannic chloride.

Nitrate of lead.

Quicksilver and alloys of quicksilver.

Nitrate of silver.

Peroxide of hydrogen.

Carbon sulphide and chloride of sulphur.

Sesquisulphide of phosphorus and phosphorus hydride.

Chromium sulphate, chromium chloride, chromium sulphochloride, basic solid

or liquid, containing a variable amount of sodium sulphate or sodium chloride.

Benzol oils.

Minium cobalt oxide.

Cochineal, carmine, sepia, and other animal colours.

Indigo, even if artificial, and other indigo colouring matters.
Colours prepared with oil, not specially mentioned.

Terpineol, safrol and menthol.

Heliotrapine, cumarine, musk, and other unspecified scented substances, natural or artificial, for use in the manufacture of perfumery, not being vegetable oils.

Rose water and orange water.

Chile nitrates, Stassfurth salts, not specially mentioned, even if refined, Thomasphosphate and so-called Thomas slag (unground), nitrate of lime, bone meal and horn meal, guano, even if natural, and other manure and animal waste.

Common gunpowder.

Gun cotton.

Smokeless powder.

Dynamite and other explosives, not specially mentioned.

Detonating caps.

Igniting material, not specially mentioned, for projectiles and guns, such as percussion fuses, time fuses, double fuses, detonators and primers, loaded. Cartridges, not specially mentioned, unloaded, with ignition caps, and loaded. Safety fuses and blasting fuse.

GOODS NOT MENTIONED ELSEWHERE.

Range-finders.

Articles which cannot be classed under any section of the Customs Tariff with the exception of condensed sulphite lye.

DEPARTMENT OF OVERSEAS TRADE.

COMMERCIAL REPRESENTATION ABROAD.

In order to

foster British overseas trade to the utmost extent, the Department of Overseas Trade has developed and controls the following Services of Commercial Intelligence Officers overseas :

1. The Trade Commissioner and Imperial Trade Correspondent Services in the Empire.

2. The Commercial Diplomatic Service attached to the British Diplomatic Missions in foreign countries.

3. The British Consular Service in foreign countries.

1. At the present time there are 14 Trade Commissioners at work; three are stationed in Canada, at Montreal, Toronto and Winnipeg, respectively; two in South Africa, at Johannesburg and Cape Town; two in Australia, at Melbourne and Sydney; two in India (to cover Ceylon), both at present at Calcutta pending the opening of the Bombay Office; and one each in New Zealand, at Wellington; in the Straits Settlements, at Singapore; in British East Africa, at Nairobi; and in the British West Indies at Trinidad. A Trade Commissioner is also stationed at headquarters.

The Trade Commissioners in the Dominions have the assistance of Imperial Trade Correspondents at a number of important centres, and the Department also has the services of Correspondents in various parts of the Empire, in which at present there is no Trade Commissioner.

2. The Commercial Diplomatic Service consists of some fifty posts in all, and the officers of the Service are stationed in all the more important foreign markets of the world. With the exception of a few officers who, for the time being, held appointments as Commercial Commissioners," the members of the Commercial Diplomatic Service are styled "Commercial Counsellors' in the highest grade, and "Commercial Secretaries" in the three lower grades. They are members of the staff of the British Embassy or Legation in which they serve.

The Commercial Diplomatic Officer has general supervision over the commercial work of the Consular officers in his area, and, with the co-operation of these two Services, a complete network of Government Commercial Representatives is thrown over foreign countries.

The Department is represented in Sweden by Mr. H. Kershaw, Commercial Secretary, 3, Hjorthagsvägen, Stockholm.

3. The Consular Service is being re-organised and established on an improved footing. Emphasis is being thrown on the importance of the commercial side of Consular work, and every effort is being made to recruit for the Consular Service, as well as for the Trade Commissioner and Commercial Diplomatic Services, men with the necessary qualifications for the work which they will handle.

4. Members of British firms are urged to call upon the Department's Representative abroad when they visit an overseas country. It is also important that they should make a point of their Representatives abroad keeping in close touch with the Department's officers.

A handbook, giving further details of the above Services, can be obtained on application at the Department of Overseas Trade, 35, Old Queen Street, S.W.1.

NOTE.

It should be understood that the views expressed in annual reports are the views of the officers themselves, and are not necessarily in all respects the views of the Department.