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BE8IDEK0T AND MUSCAT'POLITICAL AOBNOT FOE 1891-91 • 87

Paet IV.-TRADE.

The statistics of trade for the year underreport, as furnished by the customs
farmer, are shown in the accompanying returns, which are merely approximate,
and therefore not entirely reliable, particularly in the case of exports.
The returns show an increase of $160,000 in exports, and a considerable
decrease of $120,000 in imports from India, as compared with the figures for
the previous year. In the case of exports, dates and cotton fabrics contributed
principally towards the increase; there was also an increase of $100,000 in
specie exported to India, which was due to a rise in exchange for dollars in
Bombay. In the case of imports the decrease was chiefly in rice, sugar, cloth,
etc. There was a slight increase under the heads of imports from South
Arabia and Africa in cotton, fowling-pieces, etc., showing an improvement
of over $30,000.
The customs were farmed by Sett Kattansee Parshotan for $115,000.
A, 8. G. JAYAKAR, Surgn.-Lt.-Col.,
In charge Political Agency, Muscat.