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Trade Report of tho Bahrain Inlands for
the your ended the 31at 1 larch 1934, -

Introduction.
Tho Independent Arab rrincipality of Bahrain
consists of a group of ialuin.c off the dost Coast of

Arabia and io under British protection,
\ general description of tho physical ar.d

coaieorcial peculiarities of the i3lando is given in
the Roport for the year 1011-12 (Annual herlea No,3002),
-he permanent population io estimated at 1,20,000,
rrauc,-
Tho total value of trace .Airing the year
undor review aiuounted to fo,1G029G40 (Luworts R>,9276040
plus Jxporto li,G70*w00/ as colored with Rj,153GGo70

(Ii^porta E:,0772oGC plus ;b%pcrts iu. 6094210) during the
previous year, showing mi increase cf fc,162270 or
1*02 per cent.
fht actual i;.*.port6 witnessed a decrease of
4,38 per cent chiefly duo to the r/orld wide depression,
©lump in the p9orl trade and lack of ready money, The
imports from India continued to predominate in the
market but they decreased from P.-.4S4946G to L, ii.i4f.jC
showing a loss of 1°,47 per cent.
Table 1, gives the movements of goner: 1
.rchanciise in rctpoct of imports as conpared with

pearls and spec ie i-
Table 1.
£ o?"Increase or
1932/33 1933/34 decrease.
TT. *.
•*. t
Pearls •, •, 34200 43010 A 2*3.7*
b'pecio ec
Dollars 14102G0 1109420 -14.03
1444460 1242430 ”“^T2.0o .
.“.erchandise 8327900 : 1032610 - 3.34
-Jo tod. • « 9772360 32/5040 .-‘.01

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