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Coll 28/38 ‘Persia. Trade. Trade Tables 1929/30 to’ [‎122r] (243/483)

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The record is made up of 1 file (240 folios). It was created in 19 Mar 1931-7 Jan 1944. It was written in English and French. 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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United Kingdom.
The share of the total duty fi*ee imports from the United Kingdom amounted
to 515.318,050 rials (£6,401,342). The value of total imports therefore amounts
to 558,231,422 rials (£6,934.551), or 46-2 per cent, of the total of commercial and
^ duty free imports.
Germany.
Commercial imports and duty free imports amounting to 22,437,688 rials,
total, 236.414,810 rials (£2.936.830), or just over 19 per cent.
U.S.S.R.
The Soviet Union total imports amounted to 93.326,240 rials (£1.159,330), or
7 • 8 per cent.
India.
Total of all imports amounted to 74,022,800 rials (£919.538), or 6-2 per cent.
J a fan.
Total of all imports amounted to 29,982,659 rials (£372,455), or 2-5 per cent.
Tables showing the value of commercial imports from the principal
exporting countries are attached.
Exforts.
(A )—Mineral Oils.
In the nine months under review exports of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
amounted to 7,158,967,674 kilog., valued at 1,305,719,049 rials (£16,220,112). The
principal countries of destination were :—
Approx, tons.
Rials.
United Kingdom
2,369,403
487,833,780
Union of South Africa
662,892
143,810,630
Egypt
697,600
133,326,090
India
591,231
96,512,550
Aden
654,782
89,197,620
Ceylon ...
415,418
56,983,030
Australia
253,728
54,998,590
Italy
328,281
53,674,840
(Germany
82.143
12,929,170)
(B )—Other Exports.
Exports to the United Kingdom amounted to 50,723,800 rials (£630,110)
representing 10-9 per cent, of the total, and compare favourably with
41,970,800 rials in the previous twelve months. Carpets, lambskins and almonds
were the principal exports. India also showed an increase with 32,624,200 rials
(£405,270).
Germany easily heads the list with 205,828,800 rials (£2,507.190), 44-4 per
cent, of the total. Dried fruits, raw cotton, casings, carpets, gum tragacanth
and wool were the chief exports. Exports to the Soviet Union, excluding the
Caspian Fisheries, dropped to the meagre figure of 25,644,750 rials (£318,570), or
only 5-3 per cent, of the total.
The decreased demand for carpets caused a fall in exports to the United
States, the total being 33,388,900 rials (£414,760) or 7-2 per cent, of the total.
Exports to Japan were apparently only 937,575 rials, of which cotton and gum
tragacanth accounted for 897.370 rials. No opium is shown, though 972 chests
were shipped on the 2nd December, 1938, on the Akagisan Maru, declared as for
the Far East, but said to be for Macao. But only 18,375 kilog. are shown
in the tableau as exported to Macao in the nine months ended the
21st March, 1939.
[4—74] b 2

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Copies of correspondence sent by the British Legation at Tehran (including Commercial Secretary F A G Gray, and Envoys Extraordinary & Ministers Plenipotentiary, Horace James Seymour, Reader William Bullard), distributing and providing comment on Persian [Iranian] foreign trade statistics, generally in the form of quarterly returns. Included amongst the correspondence are copies of statistical tables illustrating various aspects of Persian foreign trade, arranged under the headings of imports and exports, and further organised by commodities and trading partners. The papers provide illustration of changes in trading patterns into and out of Persia prior to and during the Second World War.

The file includes several copies of a Bulletin Mensuel des Douanes (Monthly Customs Bulletin), published by the Administrator General of Customs in the Government of Iran’s Ministry of Finance. The bulletins, which are written in French, cover the periods July/August 1942 (ff 69-78), October/November 1942 (ff 55-64), November/December 1942 (ff 39-48), December 1942/January 1943 (ff 28-38), January/February 1943 (ff 16-26), and June/July 1943 (ff 5-14).

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1 file (240 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 inside front cover with 1, and terminates at the last folio with 241; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, 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. An additional foliation sequence is present in parallel between ff 2-241; these numbers are also written in pencil and are circled. A previous foliation sequence, which is also circled, has been superseded and therefore crossed out.

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