Coll 28/38 ‘Persia. Trade. Trade Tables 1929/30 to’ [‎103v] (206/483)

Commercial exports
Oil exports
Fisheries exports
June 1938 to
March 1939.
(1,000 rials.)
463.914
(£5,762,908)
1,305,719
(£16,220,112)
5,886
(£73,114)
March 1939 to
March 1940.
(1,000 rial*.)
803,888
(£10,413,059)
1,680,064
(£21,762,492)
18,215
(£235,940)
Total exports
1,775,519
(£22,056,134)
2,502.167
(£32,411,491)
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A favourable balance of 191,724.251 rials (£2 483,4,5) is shown as regaids
“commercial” exports and imports, as compared with an adverse balance
98.233,592 rials (£1,220,293) during the previous nine months.
The official rate of conversion in 1939-40 was 77-20 rials to £1, m e
previous period it was 80-50 rials.
Ibiports: Exclusive of Duty-Free Imports.
“Commercial” imports from Germany were valued at 159 6o5,728 rials
(£2,068,080) or 24-4 per cent, of the total of such imports. J^e prmcipai
German imports were metalware, including rails an( * s^P? 118 ’ • , ’ /nocc
(£444,872); machinery and electric machinery, 20,735,055 r J al8 ’
drugs, pharmaceutical specialities and chemical products, 14,913,148 rials
(£193,175); railway rolling-stock (191 units), 14,384.456 rials (£186,327); and
dyes and colours, 10,167,080 rials (£131,700). i . , n~ qgi qqo
Japan is second on the list, with imports valued at 95,891,390 i lals
(£1,242.123) or 15-6 per cent. This is chiefly due to imports ol cotton piece-
goods representing 83,615,670 rials (£1,083,103).
India’s imports amounted to 64,878,650 rials (£840,400) or 10-6 per cent.;
tea, 52,290.200 rials (£677,334); and spices, 3,012,870 rials (£39,027). were the
* The United Kingdom’s imports were 47.164,100 rials (£610,934), 7-7 per
cent Principal imports were paper, cardboard, &c., 9,292,740 rials (£120,372),
iron'and steelware, 5,803,380 rials (£75,172); cotton piece-goods, 4 071,500 ria s
(£52 740); machinery, 3.463,230 rials (£44.862); and woollens, 2,478,000 nals
(£32,100).
Imports from the United States amounted to 40,255,390 rials (£521,443),
6-6 per cent., chiefly tyres and tubes, 18,951,100 rials (£245,480), and
493 automobiles valued at 8.285,000 rials (£10/.320).
In the absence of a commercial treatv with the U.S.S.R., imports from the
Soviet Union only amounted to 7,180,240 rials (£93,010), the bulk being sugar,
3,901.240 rials (£50,530), machinery and dress apparel.
Imports: Duty-Free Imports.
The total value of duty-free imports amounted to 457 ,733 600 rials
(£5.929.192), of which the A.I.O.C. accounted for 425,111,896 rials (£5,506,630),
the principal imports being metalware, spare parts, chemicals, ? machinery,
electrical equipment, cement and vessels. The United Kingdom s share ol
duty-free imports amounted to about 347,408.700 rials (£4,500J12), of w
340,879.000 rials (£4,415,530) represented imports by the
States supplied the company with goods valued at about 46,266,000 a
(£599,300), principally metalware, automobiles and machinery^ India a
Germany each supplied goods worth about 8 million rials (£104,000), iiaq,
11,588,300 rials (£150,100), mostly bricks and unvarnished tiles; Italy Koweit.
Yugoslavia, Sweden and other countries supplied the company m smaller sea es.
^ Adding the duty-free goods to the “ commercial imports, the ^al impoi s
from the United Kingdom amounted to about 394,573,000 rials (£o,lll,046),
36-9 per cent, of the total compared with Germany, the next largest importer,
with 183,450.000 rials (£2,376.290), 17 -2 per cent. . • ,
Tables showing the value of “commercial' imports from the principal
exporting countries are attached.