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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [‎18r] (31/270)

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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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Report on the conditions for trade in Mesopotamia
prepared in the Office of the Civil
Mesopotamia consists principally of a large alluvial plain watered by the
rivers Tigris and Euphrates. It is bounded on the N. and N.E. by Kurdistan
where the plain rises into foothills and mountains; on the S. by the Persian
Gulf and the Arabian desert, on the E. by Persia, and on the W. by the
Arabian and Syrian deserts. Its area is about 120,000 square miles; its popu
lation being about 2,800,000 composed of
Transhipment in Bombay ex B.I.S.N. and P. & (). Steamers.
Strict Line from the U.K.
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. steamers.
Basrah Agents : Messrs. Strict, Scott & Co., Ltd.
Andrew Weir & Co.’s steamers from the U.K.
Basrah Agents : Messrs^. Andrew Weir & Co.
Arab Steamers, Ltd. N
Mogul Line.
Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. S.N. Co., from Bombay.
Basrah Agent: Abdul Jabar Khedairy.
A large volume of trade is carried on by native craft plying- between
Basrali, Gulf ports, India, East Africa and Aden.
Duty is collected on imports and exports by sea at Basrah and at
Baghdad, the dutiable importations at the latter place being restricted to
goods on a through bill of lading A document confirming the goods which a ship has received. : this provision is necessary to enable the
volume of trade dealt with in Baghdad to be limited to the quantity for which
Customs accommodation is obtainable. There is a Collector of Customs at
each of these places, their decisions are subject to appeal to the Chief Collector
of Customs, who is Chief Customs authority and whose office is in Baghdad.
The Collector of Customs, Baghdad, has charge of the land Customs
frontier stations of which the principal are at Tirauq (near Khaniqin on the
Persian frontier), Mosul and Sulaimaniyah, at each of which places there is
a Deputy Collector.
Sea Customs are levied in accordance with the Indian Sea Customs Act
(VIII of 1878 as amended) which applies mvtatis mutandis to Mesopotamia.
Land Customs are collected under the Land Customs Proclamation
(Appendix I).
The following notes indicate some of the provisions -of the Sea Customs
Act; the full text of the Act may be purchased at Government book depots in
England or India : —
(a) Vessels^ are not allowed to discharge any cargo until the Captain
or his Agent has obtained written permission from the Collector
of Customs to do so (Sections 57, 59 and 81).
Commissioner in Baghdad.
Muhammadans 2,642,000
Shi‘ahs ... 1,494,000
J ews
Christians
Other religions
Sunnis ... 1,148,000
46.000
79.000
^2,000
STEAMER SERVICES.
The following steamer lines serve Basrah: —
B.I.S.N. Co. from India and U.K.
Basrah Agents: Mesopotamia Persia Corporation.
Asiatic S.K. Co., Ltd.
Bombay Persia S.K. Co.
CUSTOMS ADMINISTRATION.

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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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