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Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [‎20r] (39/252)

The record is made up of 1 file (124 folios). It was created in 22 Nov 1900-20 Apr 1905. 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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PRINCIPAL ARTICLES OF COMMERCE.
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Table of
Statistics.
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Textiles :~Cotton Yarns and Tissues.
Imports for the last three years (including Karun).
£
1900- 01 ... 1,501,923
1901- 02 ... 2,359,220
1902- 03 ... 1,849,641
S^oi^details of these and following figures see Annex H.,
The imports for the last two years w r ere distributed as
tollows:—
British Empire. Russia. Other Countries.
1901- 02 1,563,929 679,229 116,062
1902- 03 1,281,608 492,137 75,896
It is clear that Russia is our only formidable competitor at
the present time.
. I b89*90 the British Empire w r as in possession of the trade
in cotton textiles to Persia, Russia furnishing 9 or 10 percent,
only, and the contributions of Other Countries being quite incon
siderable. The same might be said of Other Countries to-day
although really France and Austria, probably then, and certainly
now’, possess a steady if modest trade in certain distinct lines of
high class cotton prints, cretonnes, &c.
Russian competition was distinctly felt by 1892-93. In 1889
she exported to Persia about 160,000/. value of cotton textiles, and
in 1898, when drawback of Rbls. 2-30, Rbls. 2-40, and Rbls. 2’8o
gold,* per poud (according to the class of goods) was granted, her
exports to Persia amounted to about 500,000/.
British and British Indian trade in 1889 has been estimated
at about 1,714,000/.
Estimates made from Consular Reports give for the period
*895-97 an annual import from the British Empire of about
1,626,000/., and for 1901-02 of about 1,670,000^.
This last amount is some 15 per cent, more than the average
obtained from the Customs Statistics for 1901-03 already quoted.
In drawing conclusions from these statistics it should be observed
that the Consular Reports in some instances appear to convert
quantities into values at somewhat high rates, whereas Customs
valuations (made for the calculation of duties payable ad 'valorem)
are certain to be well within real value.
Statistics show a great increase in the cotton textile trade
in 1901 in imports from both Russia and the British Empire.
Russia now grants drawback on all cotton tissues exported
to Persia on the following scale :—
Rbls.
A. Bleached and unbleached 4-65 per poud.
B. Coloured, excepting Adrianople dye
(red ground) 4 -8 7 i „
C. Coloured, Adrianople dye (red ground) 5 , 4o
The fact must not be lost sight of that all the raw cotton,
imported over European and Black Sea frontiers, employed in
Russian factories is charged Rbls. 4’15 per poud Customs duty,
and Persian cotton only 40 copecks per poud. The annual con
sumption of raw cotton in Russia may be 260,000—280,000 tons
and the annual foreign imports, say, 160,000—170,000 tons of
which 14,000 tons are from Persia. Consequently the Russian and
Persian production may be, say, 120,000 tons per annum.
♦ Equivalent under existing Currency Law to 3 ‘ 45 i 3'6o and 4 , 2o Rbls. per poud.

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The file contains reports and correspondence relating to Persia [Iran], including reports on trade and trade routes in Persia.

It includes:

  • A copy of the ‘Report Received from Mr H.W. Maclean, the Special Commissioner Appointed by the Commercial Intelligence Committee of the Board of Trade, on the Conditions and Prospects of British Trade in Persia.’
  • A copy of a letter from Arthur Henry Hardinge, HM Minister at Tehran, to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Marquess of Lansdowne (Henry Charles Keith Petty-Fitzmaurice), enclosing an annual report prepared by Evelyn Grant Duff, Secretary of Legation, Tehran, on events in Persia during the year 1904
  • Copies of the reports ‘Reconnaissance from Kondi on the Seistan Trade Route via Mashkhel-Hamun and Panjgur…’ and ‘Reconnaissance and Estimate for a Railway from Nushki to the Helmand and thence to the Persian frontier at Bund-i-Seistan’
  • Copies of printed despatches from the Agent to the Governor-General in Baluchistan to the Secretary to the Government of India Foreign Department, forwarding copies of the weekly Diary of the Political Assistant, Chagai (for the weeks ending 16 February, 8 March, 24 March, 31 March, and 24 October 1901, and 31 March and 8 April 1902), and a copy of the report ‘Trade Returns of the Quetta-Seistan Trade Route, for the year 1900-1901.’ by Captain Frank Cooke Webb-Ware, Political Assistant, Chagai
  • Printed copies of the Diary of Captain Robert Arthur Edward Benn, HM Vice-Consul for Seistan and Kain (for the period ending 31 March, 11 April, 30 April, 15 May, 17 June, and 15 September 1901).
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1 file (124 folios)
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The papers are arranged in no apparent order within 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 126; 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.

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