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Reports and Correspondence Relating to Persia, Including Trade and Trade Routes in Persia [‎22v] (44/252)

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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REPORT ON TRADE OF PERSIA.
Number in
Table of
Statistics.
59
article was offered there from Hamadan. As the imports by- t)Oth
routes are British goods, the manufacturer may look on this com
petition with greater equanimity. . # # .
Northern Markets .—competition of Russia m northern
markets is more serious. Our sales in Teheran have distinctly
decreased, and are now less than ten years ago by a third or more.
A gentleman with exceptional experience of this business in
Teheran states that seven or eight years ago Russia furnished the
Teheran market with perhaps i,ooo bales of red-ground prints (say
30 pieces of yards each to a bale) as against 4,000 (20 pieces
to a bale) from Manchester. To-day that position has not only
been reversed, but, as the consumption has increased. Russia now
sends over 5,000 bales per annum. The average cost of these
prints may be 95. 6>d. per piece of 50 yards, 23 inches wide, c. i. f.
Enzeli, or \os. gd. delivered in Teheran. The trade with
Khorassan has been still more seriously reduced, and that with
Yezd has equally suffered, as a great part of the piece goods
taken to Yezd from Bunder Abbas or Ispahan was destined for
Khorassan. . . ..
This is a somewhat formidable list of markets formerly held
by British prints and now encroached upon by foreign manufac
tures. Yet our imports of these articles have certainly increased
by the Bagdad route, and in Ispahan complaint seems rather of
closer competition than of actual decrease of trade.
Even in Khorassan our prints have not been altogether driven
out of the field, and a few established makes are still imported ;
that known as Seyd Abdul Khassemi, a six-coloured print, was
quoted as a type. In Nishapur and Sabzwar, which are calculated
to take nearly Rbls. 300,000 in value of Russian prints annually,
the same information was still furnished that British prints of the
better class are still in demand.
In Shahrud a leading merchant ventured the opinion that perhaps
one-fifth of the trade is still British. This town is on the line of
communications with the Caspian at Bundar Gez, and sends
Russian prints (red-ground) to Yezd.
Other Coloured Goods,
In dyed tissues, black and coloured linings and Italians, cotton
suitings and trouserings, serges, flannelettes, &c., the trade vtd the
Gulf is in British hands, but statistics are not available to distin
guish the values imported. Indigo dyed shirtings are largely
used on the Gulf littoral, but are not appreciated inland, where
home dyed goods are considered to be of faster colour. French,
German, and Austrian goods, for the most part imported through
Constantinople and Trebizond, have been already noticed amongst
Tabriz imports.
The Customs Tariff of 1903 is, on. the whole, favourable to
printed goods. Some of the more delicate prints, rolled with a
paper wrap on wooden boards, have to pay on the weight of these
materials, as no allowance is made, and the goods would be
damaged if unwound. In Kermanshah attention was drawn to a
few lines of heavier goods, on which duty works out to more than
the old 5 per cent, rate—such as a heavy-striped print (Tampush),
about per cent.; a heavily-filled Turkey red twill, 8 per cent.;
and a dyed cotton lining, 7 per cent. On the majority of printed
and dyed goods, however, duty is somewhat less than the old 5 per
cent, ad valorem, the average for the whole class working out to
about 4J- per cent, on value.
In every place visited a general comparison was invited as to
the qualities of the Russian and British prints competing on the
market, and the reply invariably furnished was that the Russian
article at equal prices was stouter and more durable, with faster
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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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