CACAO BEANS IMPORTED INTO UNITED KINGDOM.
| From | |
| British West Africa | 72,886 tons |
| British West Indies | 13,219 tons |
| Ecuador | 9,153 tons |
| Brazil | 3,665 tons |
| Ceylon | 903 tons |
| Other Countries | 13,820 tons |
| Total | 113,646 tons |
| Home Consumption | 64,613 tons |
It will be noted that the import of British cacao is over 75 per cent. of the total.
Before the war about half the cacao imported into the United Kingdom was grown in British possessions. During the war more and more British cacao was imported, and now that a preferential duty of seven shillings per hundredweight has been given to British Colonial growths we shall probably see a still higher percentage of British cacao consumed in the United Kingdom.