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File 1283/1913 Pt 5 'MESOPOTAMIA TRADE Issue of new Trade Report' [‎62r] (119/270)

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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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CUSTOM HOUSE,
BASRAH, 8th December 1919.
From
To
The CHIEF COLLECTOR of CUSTOMS, M.S.F.
BASRAH.
The CIVIL COMMISSIONER,
BAG HD AD
MEMORANDUM
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I have made guarded enquiries from a number of mer-
ciiants with a view to getting information on the suojects unaer
enquiry but have had out little success, prooably for these
reasons;-*— a certain amount of apathy aoout tacjcling tiie
ject; urgent pre-engagements in connection with the aate season
v.-hich has been the source of much anxiety; and finally in certair.
cases an extraordinary degree of ignorance as to the firms
future policy, combined with a reluctance to impart any informa
tion on the subject. So far as the general question of trade
between this country and the U.K. is concerned it can I thinx
be safely said that the volume of imports is on the increase
steadily and is above the prewar level, This is of course due
to the absence of the enemy* countries as competitors,
exhaustion of stocks both here and in Persia at the beginning
of the war when imports were at a standstill and prooaoly very
largely to the closing of the northern route into Persia which
had therefore to derive supplies through Mesopotamia. I have
no means of checking the statement, but am informed that goods
were actually.reaching Russia through Mesopotamia and Persia.
It may be found that the country is in a very much overbought
position in the matter of piece goods, due to the fact that on
‘ising market anyone who could get credit could make money
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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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