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br-e apparent Increase of imports from to merchants in the neighbouring countries) are
* ' J India Ip duo to the fact that imports as follow*: —
Gcr"fa0r-j ;a this report as coming from the port
Jrc Mch the/ were shipped, and no attempt
ttfbcto nude, as in former/cars, to guess at the PzsotfrACTs nrotTiD
rzouc
coooUj of origin. Value In pop-
For experts the percentages are as follows Articles tod in
1913-14. VaiLed Other
India. Css* coun­
foOL tries.
Incrcateor
Ce-uuSrj. 1312-13. 191 3-14. Dccreact.
Z
Rico 316,801 99-9 0-1
per cent. per cect. per cent.
Piece-goods 126,601 941 6-9
7-6 70 —S
I»dia .
Gbcfl » 67,803 17*4 020
Jfrighboain* couutrie* . 883 209 + 2-6
berd-prii^ on the Penan Coffee 65,138 » 79-3 206
GnlL
Sugar, loaf acid 43.S23 268 73-3
|U other forego eotra- 4-2 21 -21 soft.
trite.
Too . 3Q457 98-9 11
Tobacco • 17,653 7'4 92-6
The above figures show (1) that there have -t
not leea an/ marked fluctuations in the flow of* Spicca 9.SSS 78 21
trade during the year under review, and (2) that
vhen spi-cie and pearl? are omitted practically all 1 From the above table it will be observed that
the exports from Bahrainare for the neighbouring India heads the list in all the comm-ydities which
countries. This port is a distributing centre for j the produces rand for which there is deiraand here,
goods for Kair, Katif and Hassa and. a smuggling The United Kingdom dc-:snot produce any of the
depot for certain goods on which a Ligh tariff is commodities in demand in Bahrain except piece-
levied in Persia. goods and sugar ; as regards the form era great
deal of that shown under “ India" no doubt
comes original Ij from the United Kingdom but
Proportion of British and Indian Trade. British sugar is not vet able to compete with
continental beet 6ugar, owing to its sb’ghtly
Excluding specie and pearls the principal higher price.
irtides of imports into Bahrain (other than slaugh­ T. H. KEYES, Captain,
ter animals and fuel, etc., which are only of interest Political Agat, Bahrain-