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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [25r] (45/270)
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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METALS.
Metals imported consist principally of iron, copper, yellow metal sheets
and tin. Iron is required principally for small constructional purposes ; more
especially bars for windows, rolled iron beams are coming into use m the
larger towns but as a general rule the size of rooms is confined to the span of
tbe°cbandals (poles about 14 feet long and an average diameter of 3 to 3£
inches). All Arab houses are fitted with barred windows necessitating a
supply of bar iron or of some substitute.
Copper and yellow metal are used for domestic utensils and the tin for
tinning them; there wpuld appear to be a considerable market for aluminium
vessels, more especially those which can be packed inside each other with a
view to diminution of freight charges, both sea and land.
Figures for value (in
lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
) of imports are: —
1910
1911
1912
1915
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
... 14 1916
... 17 mr
... 11 1918
0 1919
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
1
2
6
... 19
It is certain that the country is short of supplies and can absorb a con
siderable quantity (when it can obtain delivery) m spite of the fact that large
quantities of iron have been purchased from the military authorities m the
form of scrap.
TIMBER.
Mesopotamia being a country in which there is little or no timber other
than date palms, there is a considerable market for planks and beams, a
market which will increase with the development of the country and the
desire of the population to live in better and larger houses, bova'nment
requirements for building purposes and railways will be large, the annual
value of date boxes imported is about 18
lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
Excluding these boxes the value has been :
1910
1911
1912
1915
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
3 1916
5 1917
... 11 1918
5 1919
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
... 27
... 29
... 26
6
The years 1916-1918 were abnormally high owing to importations by
merchants with a view to selling to the Army. The figures for 1919 are low
as timber has been purchased in various forms from the military authorities.
TEA.
The importations of tea during the years indicated were, m
rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
: —
h
of
1910
1911
1912
1915
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
3 1916
4 1917
4 1918
7 1919
Lacs
One lakh is equal to one hundred thousand rupees
of
Rupees
Indian silver coin also widely used in the Persian Gulf.
.
11
10
66
60
The main outlet for this tea is Persia which is a tea drinking country
whereas, writing generally, Mesopotamia is a coffee drinking country.
Tt would be safe to say that more than 50 per cent, of the tea imported
is re-exported to Persia. . 1 , ,,, ,
The Baghdad figures for exports to Persia during 1919 show that tea
i Pc 39 00 000 was exported whilst the Persian figures for imports at
Ermfnlah for’tl« Perlian^ar 1918-1919 amount to about Rs. 50,00.000.
The tea imported is almost invariably packed in chests containing from
80 lb to 160 lb., and is principally Indian of the better qualities.
The new Persian Customs tariff in addition to prescribing a lower rate of
duty on tea no longer contains the differentiation against packet tea (r.e., tea,
in small tin boxes or lead packets) winch used to be assessed on its gross weight
and consequently a trade in packet tea may be expected to develop.
The inadequacy of the packing of tea for this market has frequently been
noticed.
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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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