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Coll 30/74 'Bahrain: Qn. of customs duty to be charged on goods imported by air into Bahrain.' [10r] (19/52)
The record is made up of 1 file (24 folios). It was created in 8 Aug 1933-10 Sep 1934. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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ENCLOSURE IN Wt£K r Y !
No. 17, 26 APR. 1954
FROM SEGRETARY, POLITICAL ,v„y
SECRET DEPT.
INDIA OFFICE
The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors.
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Sir,
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1 am airected hy the Secretary
of State to acknowledge receipt of
your confidential despatch 107-3 of
2nd February on the subject of the
request put forward by Imperial
Airways tnat customs duty should not
be charged on the full c.i.f. value
of goods imported by air into Bahrein.
2. In reply I am to say that after
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consultation with the/'Air Ministry
"tlie Secretary of State^agrees that
H.E.. Sheikh Hamad should be advised
to take the assessment for duty as
the declared value of the goods plus
a third of the air freightage. From
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the Air Ministry letter of 16th April
of which a copy is enclosed, it will
be seen that the two countries in
which a concession of this nature hao
already been made are Uganda and the
Sudan.
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J. G. LAITHWAITE,
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The file concerns a request to the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. , Bahrain from Imperial Airways Limited (made through their agents, Mesopotamia Persia Corporation Limited, Bahrain) for a reduction in customs duty charged on the c.i.f. (cost, insurance, and freight) value of goods imported by them into Bahrain. The issue arose from the company's contention that the cost of air freight was in most cases out of all proportion to the value of the goods. The papers show that there was initial resistance to the proposal from the Director of Customs and Port Officer, Bahrain, because Imperial Airways had not up to that point paid rent or landing fees for the use of Bahrain Aerodrome. However, agreement was reached in 1934 by the British authorities and the Government of Bahrain that the state should thereafter take into account only one-third of the cost of air freight in the assessment of customs duty on the value of imports.
The abbreviation in the file title appears to stand for 'Question'.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
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- 1 file (24 folios)
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The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 26; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Condition: the top of portion of folio 3 has been torn off and is missing, entailing the loss of some (non-essential) text.
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- Coll 30/74 'Bahrain: Qn. of customs duty to be charged on goods imported by air into Bahrain.'
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:4v, 5v:18v, 19v, 22v, 23v, 24v:25v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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