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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [17r] (29/270)
The record is made up of 135 folios. It was created in 24 Nov 1919-27 Oct 1920. 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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CONTENTS
Area and Population
Steamer Services serving Basrah
Customs Administration
Sea Customs Act (Notes on) ...
Principal Articles the Import and Export of which is prohibited
Customs Tariff - •••
Commercial Travellers (Customs rules for dealing with samples)
Basrah Port (facilities and charges)
Communications in Mesopotamia
Passport Regulations
Weights and Measures
Currency, Exchange and Finance
Banks
Registration of Companies
Trade Names Proclamation
Merchandise Marks Act ... ...
Commercial Associations
Principal Markets
Value of Trade
Principal Imports and Exports—
Textiles
Metals
Timber
Tea
Sugar
Machinery
Dates
Wool
Bam
Liquorice
Gum
Tobacco
Motor Transport
Mineral Resources
Agriculture
Cotton
Irrigation
Land Tenure
APPENDICES.
I. Land Customs Proclamation
II. Travellers’ Samples
III. Passport Regulations ... ^
IV. Companies’ Proclamation
V. Trade Names Proclamation
VI. Merchandise Marks and connected Acts
VII Mr. Philby’s Note on Cultivation of Cotton ...
VIII. Schedule of Port Charges
IX. Map of Communications
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5
5 — 7
7—8
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9—10
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11—12
12-13
13
13
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19—21
21
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21—22
22
... 24—25
25
... 26—28
... 29—31
32
... 33—35
... 35-40
... 41—56
57
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Part 5 of the volume (folios 3-137) consists almost entirely of two extensive and successive government reports about trade conditions in Mesopotamia, following the end of the First World War (1914-1918) and the development of British commercial interests in the region. The later report, printed at the Government Press, Baghdad in 1920, is entitled Report on the conditions for trade in in Mesopotamia prepared in Office of the Civil Commissioner in Baghdad . It includes a communication map which outlines the region’s road and railway network. The earlier report, printed by the Government of India at Calcutta in 1919, is entitled The Prospects of British Trade in Mesopotamia and the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .
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- Title
- File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report'
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- 3r:137v
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- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
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