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Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎34r] (67/154)

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The record is made up of 1 file (74 folios). It was created in 10 Oct 1932-21 Feb 1945. 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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fiffQcts of the Persian Trade Monopoly
Laws and the Perso-Soviet Treaty upon
Soviet commercial penetration in Persia.
It seems convenient to start this note with a very
brief description of the so-called Persian Trade Monopoly
Laws.
The original Trade Monopoly Law consisted of a
single article, passed on 25th February, 1931, declaring
foreign trade to be a monopoly of tne state which
reserved to itself the right of import and export of
natural and industrial products.
This was followed on the 11th March by an annexe
to the original Law consisting of eighteen articles, the
chief provisions of which were as follows:
(1) The import of goods into Persia is made dependent
on the export of Persian products of a like value.
(2) Individuals or commercial concerns are allowed,
on special conditions and under special permit, to import
products which the Government does not wish to import
directly itself; import permits for such goods are to be
issued on presentation of certificates which can be
bought from importers, showing that exports of equivalent
value have been made.
(3) Exporting is to be more or less free from
restriction except where the Government itself undertakes
the export or gives the sole right of exporting to
another party.
(4) The export of oil and fishery products does not
give any right to import in exchange.
(5) Every year the Government will publish a list of
goods that may be imported during the following twelve
months within certain limits,as well as the quotas that
may be imported through each customs post.
, qa inn yipt cent*, of "their foreign
(6) Exporters must sell 100 per cen
exchange/

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The first part of the file (ff 52-75) contains correspondence dated 1932, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran, Reginald Hervey Hoare; John Gilbert Laithwaite of the 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. ; George William Rendel of the Foreign Office; Cecil Claude Farrer of the Department of Overseas Trade. The correspondence is in response to a memorandum entitled ‘Economic characteristics of Russian trade with the South of Persia compared with British’, written by the Probationer Vice-Consul at Bushire, J W Blanch (ff 71-72).

The second part of the file (ff 23-51) contains correspondence dated 1933, exchanged between: HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. in Tehran; the 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. ; the Foreign Office. The correspondence concerns the need for clear and regular despatches from Tehran on commercial relations between Soviet Russia and Persia. This part of the file contains a memorandum entitled ‘Effects of the Persian Trade Monopoly Laws and the Perso-Soviet Treaty upon Soviet commercial penetration in Persia’ (ff 34-40). The memorandum is undated and its author not stated. However, it bears annotations made by George Edmund Crombie of the 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. , which are dated 3 March 1933.

The third part of the file (ff 2-22) contains a letter dated 15 December 1926 enclosing two notes (also 1926) written by Reginald Teague-Jones. The notes were forwarded, in 1945, by John Walter Hose, formerly of the 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. , to Roland Tennyson Peel of the 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. . The notes are entitled ‘Soviet Commercial Policy in Persia’ (ff 5-14) and ‘The Crucial Problem in Soviet Russia’ (ff 15-22). The accompanying letter (f 4) is signed under Teague-Jones’s pseudonym Ronald Sinclair.

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 (74 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 76; these numbers are written in pencil 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.

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