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Exports.*- contd.
Us.
Iapungar or Iesufgool 225 maunds 700
Gum 20 do. . 200
'Wheat
Barley |
Grains Jowari i In plentiful sca-
Moon# | sons only.
(.Rico j
Total value o£ Exports, . . 1,83,000
I
Imports.
Re.
Cotton cloths, blue and white from India . . 1,00,00
Rice 1
Wheat. |
Grains . I { Barley. V a . 40,000
1 Jowari. |
l^Moong. J
Dates dry . , 10,000
Sugar candy and Goor .
Oil
Copper
Brass
Lead
Iron
Steel
Gunpowder
Sulphur
Tamarind . 30,000
Turmeric
Cocoanuts
Bamboos
Spices, Pepper, etc.
Perfumes
Indigo, Henna and other dyes
Coffee
Curamra 6eed, drugs
Cutlery and hardwaro
Total valuo . . t JH . 1,80,000
Total value of Exports . t . 1,83,000
Do. Imports • , . 1,80,000
Produce of Mekran brought in and consumed at Gwadur • . 60,000
Value of the trade « . 4,13,000

There are about thirty native vessels belonging to the port of Gwadur. In
these the salt fish and other articles exported are conveyed to the West Coast of
India, Muscat, and the Persian Gulf, but not further. In former times Ame­
rican barques occasionally called and took away cargoes of wool.
Revenue.
With certain exceptions the general principle adopted for the taxation of
the trade of Gwadur is the levying of an ad-valorem duty of four* per cent on
all Imports and Exports. The former not being liable to further duty on leav­
ing the town, nor the latter on arrival from the interior. On one occasion an
attempt was made to reverse this order of things, but so much dissatisfaction
was caused that it was abandoned in a few months.
This rule, however, does not apply to the produce of the fisheries, the tax
on which is as follows:—
One-tenth of all fresh fish’landed is taken by the revenue farmer.
Nora—Certain privileged poraone p»y i per cent, lea