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Majesty the Shah in December last, he issued a pro- value of- non-aniline carpets exported
clam it ion that all these exactions were to cease but £151,005 lo £67,COO. Of c uric, tf„ '«i
after a short period of inactivity the Khans and value of carpets accounts for part rf the x\
Kalantars resumed their malpractices. These tolls is evident that the Persians are now tendingi * •’
recently amounted to 4 Krana a mule, 0-9-3 their handicraft. It is interesting to obscrv •
a ton. value of indigo (naeural) imported has decli»/li V’
£8,000 and the value of indigo (synthetic\ i' •
Volume of Trade. creased by £11,000. 35 ,L'
The total foreign trade of Push ire amounted in Further noteworthy increases arc tilth,,..
1922-23 to £2,462,777 of which £1.382,997 are imports below :—
and £1,079,780 arc exports. This total represents an 1921-22. 1922.JJ.
increase of £236,086 on the total of 1921*22, *.«.,
£2,206,691 (composed of imports £1,526,594 ar.d £ 1
Butter
611
exports £680,097). It is an interesting s ign to notice Almonds 48,792 8.«J
that the imports have decreased in value by £143,597 Ramins 2,9(4 12-17
and the exports have increased by £399,683, thus Raw cotton 771 8.133
tending to equalize the adverse balance.
Unfortunately, owing to the London Produce
being so dull, the value of tragacar.th export*]
Imports.
year has fallen from £113,057 to £70,830.
A large amount of the merchandise imported this A table showing the vclacs of the imports n?
year consists of goods which have been lying in exports of Bushire since 1910-11 is here giver
bonded warehouse for the full period allowed and
have therefore been released for that reason. Import. Export.
Of the decrease of £143,597 in imports £32,000 is £ £
occasioned bv the decrease in the value of rice from 1910- 11 . 675,614 34S.J.V)
£63,351 in 1921-22 to £30,252 in 1922-23 A similar 1911- 12 . 932.-531 Cr,9/;.;
951,729
fall is obscrvible in the ease of all cereals, e.g., fall in 1912- 13 . 625,7a 637.0)1
1913- 14
601,7-4
wheat £9,000 and flour £20,000. 1914- 15 . 609,335 719.171
The cause of the fall is the good harvest in 1922 1915- 16 . 777,317 583.(54
1,299,262
which was much better than that of 1921 and which, 1916- 17 . . 2,439,171 443.C4
1917- 18
820J61
in fact, averted a famine. 1918- 19 . 2,946,450 395.170
Another great decrease is in the value of cotton 1919- 20 . 2,723,357 917.(55
clothing which in 1921-22 amounted to £596,056 (of 1920- 21 . 2,464,797 896^71
1,526.-594
1921- 22
660.(37
which the lion’s share came from India and British 1922- 23 . 1,382,997 1,079,7:0
Empire) and in 1922-23 to £7,730 only. A similar
but smaller fall is observed in the case of woollen From these figure*, allowing for the erhanc(d vj:(
clothing. of goods, it will be observed that the trace lu
On the other hand, the value of unbleached cotton suddenly fallen in value to a figure below tl»t (*
cloth increased in 1922-23 to £53,758 as against £8,324 some pre-war year*.
in 1921-22. Of this £52,400 came from India. An
enormous increase amounting to £600,000 odd is Distribution of Trade.
observed in the case of bleached cotton cloth. Imports.—Ab wiB b-e seen frem statement No.. 1 -
the countries of origin of goods imported intoFu*J
Exports. are changing. During the war, over SO per
The greatest portion of the £399,683 increase in the import* were sh(ywn as ccming frem tr.e Be* ' |
exports is due to opium. In 1921-22 opium to the Empire (including India). There is ,
value of £ 85,389 was exported bat in 1922-23 the error in this figure, for which the Persian C * j
value was £654,340, an increase of £378,951. This statistics are responsible. Included in the fifW-^
ny items whi(k*^
increase is likely to be maintained in the next year. the imports from India were ms therefore
Another interesting increase is in tobacco, from transhipped at Bombay and are du«d ‘.T
£38,800 to £58,610. This may well be the beginning exports from India. This error is now re
of a new industry for Persia. Almonds likewise in­ direct sailings to the Gulf.
creased from £48,792 to £62,250. The figures for the imports from the British *1
A rsther significant state of affaire is revealed by remain steady in the neighbourhood oi 74 per ^
the figures of the export of carpets. In 1921-22 the A* increase i. otamU. »
value of woollen aniline carpets exported was nH and not a very extensive one
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in 1922-23 £43,775 and yet in the same period the is observable in the case of Germany . XliU v