![Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎35r] (69/154)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000018/IOR_L_PS_12_3470A_0069.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎35r] (69/154)")
Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [35r] (69/154)
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. .
Transcription
This transcription is created automatically. It may contain errors.
2
exchange to the Ooveminent, but certain exporters may be
liberated from this obligation.
(7) If an exporter within the period prescribed for
the sale of his exchange to the Government imports goods
which it is open to him under the law to import, the
obligation to sell his exchange will be reduced
proportionately to the value of the goods imported by
him.
t<r
,«aA
r %%<4'~Y
?.z. **/n
The idea underlying the Trade Monopoly Laws was
that all imports into Persia should be balanced by the
export of an equivalent value of Persian goods other
than oil and fishery products. It was hoped at the time
that the whole of the oil royalties accruing to the
Government could be devoted to the building up of a gold
reserve with a view to the introduction of a gold standard
in Persia. But it was also frequently asserted by the
Persian Minister of Court and by other members of the
Persian Government that one of the chief reasons for the
introduction of the trade monopoly regime was the desire
to check the flooding of the Persian market by the
dumping of Soviet imports. They appear to have thought
that this object would be attained by imposing on the
Russians the obligation to export Persian goods to the
value of their imports into Persia, but actually the law
was bound to favour the Russians, who are the principal
consumers of Persian agricultural products. Also the
organisation of Soviet trade in Persia in big state
trading concerns made it better suited than most of its
competitors to the conditions of the new regime.
The initial advantages of the Russians were
considerably increased by the special privileges granted
to them by the Perso-Soviet Treaty (signed on 27th October,
/sr>
1931/
About this item
- Content
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.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (74 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.
- Physical characteristics
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.
- Written in
- English in Latin script View the complete information for this record
Use and share this item
- Share this item
Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [35r] (69/154), British Library: India Office Records and Private Papers, IOR/L/PS/12/3470A, in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100054939074.0x000046> [accessed 18 April 2024]
https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100054939074.0x000046
Copy and paste the code below into your web page where you would like to embed the image.
<meta charset="utf-8"><a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100054939074.0x000046">Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’ [‎35r] (69/154)</a> <a href="https://www.qdl.qa/en/archive/81055/vdc_100054939074.0x000046"> <img src="https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000018/IOR_L_PS_12_3470A_0069.jp2/full/!280,240/0/default.jpg" alt="" /> </a>
This record has a IIIF manifest available as follows. If you have a compatible viewer you can drag the icon to load it.https://www.qdl.qa/en/iiif/81055/vdc_100000000648.0x000018/manifestOpen in Universal viewerOpen in Mirador viewerMore options for embedding images
Copyright: How to use this content
- Reference
- IOR/L/PS/12/3470A
- Title
- Coll 28/62 ‘Persia. Soviet commercial penetration in:’
- Pages
- front, front-i, 2r:64r, 64ar, 64v:70r, 70ar, 70v:75v, back-i, back
- Author
- East India Company, the Board of Control, the India Office, or other British Government Department
- Usage terms
- Open Government Licence