'File 19/176 IV (C 71) Bahrain Finances' [‎105r] (228/432)

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it?4- t? variety in. the above comparison shows
SSLi ^ ail l S i f'9 0ds kave secured, a definite
Bahrain, and the market for British
&iia inaian^' ooas has suffered accorain^iy.
-i 02, C0li ld to some extent ha've been
oui ustea^ ii* my su. i est ion of imposing an Import
r-S u P on Japanese goods had been
muO eiiect and Bahrain money TOuld again
r £i I 3 E^ae into India and u-reat Britain, as"
before, instead of being lost to a foreign
country.
while^certain imports have proved useless in
ijanram, there is a noticeaolf marked increase
in imports of cotton, woollen, silken and
loatner goods. One factor in these increases
has been the declaration of certain monopolies
in Persia, which caused goods in transit to be
landed at Bahrain instead of Persia.
Japanese goods are inferior to British or Indian
goods, ana also they are deteriorating in
quality as compared with previous imports ~but
they rind a sale because they are cheap. Japanese
tnem from sell in,, to one purchaser at one price, »
and to a second purchaser at a lower price for the
same articles. Consequently Bahrain merchants
suffer loss by this competition.
To illustrate the decline in values I give a comr
parison of the prices of cotton, silk/ and arti
ficial silk goods.
Comparison of values, (per piece)
Kature of goods. Year Year
1352 1353
China silk mull Rs 9/-
" Hand brand 11/- 9/-
11 Deer brand If/- 10/-
Indian Cotton lull 5/- 4/-
M Murdoo 6/- 5/8
Cotton piecegoods 5/- 4/-
Japanese art taffeta 4/8 4/-
Japanese printed . _ 5/- 4/-
" artificial plain voile w"'- 4/-
»» •' printed ?? 7/8 6/-
» » M satin 7/- 5/8
plain seteen 6/- 5/-
cotton longcloth ?/- 6/-
« cloth 5/8 4/8
mulls £>/- 2/8
» prints V8 4/-
It may be remarked that the special item of rice
imported from Japan is explained by the enterprise
oFe local Hind trader who purchased through
Japanese ar.ents in Karachi a large shipment of
ola Ban; odd rice which the Japanese government had