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REPORT ON TRADE OF PERSIA.
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figures given under a few headings in my tables now differ from the Official Commercial Statistics, but not to any
material extent. The differences for the year 1902-03 are trivial ; for the year 1901-02 the following differences may be
noted : —
In my Table I., Imports —Clothing should be increased by Krs. 62,000 ; machines, &c., by Krs. 257,000 ; dyes should
be decreased by Krs. 90,000.
In my Table II., Exports.-yl«f»j«/s, living, should be decreased by Krs. 50,000 : gums by Krs. 50,000 : and sugar,
loaf, by Krs. 126,000.
I have excluded bullion and specie from my tables. The figures given in the Official Commercial Statistics for
bullion and specie are Imports for the year 1901-02, Krs. 19,384,778, and for the year 1902-0^, Krs. 3,031,000,
but they appear to me obviously incomplete, being, I should say for 1901-02 about one-half, and for 1902-03 not one-tenth
of the actual values imported.
Bullion in the form of bar silver is known to be imported in large quantities to be coined at the Persian mint •
imports for other purposes are very small
I have also excluded exports of fish from my tables. The figures given in the Official Commercial Statistics
are : —Exports for the year 1901-02, Krs. 3 J 31 0 » 2 39 , and for the year 1902*03, Krs. 30,097,199. These exports are
almost entirely from the Caspian, as the value of fish exported from the South of Persia does not exceed Krs. 100,000
annually.
Persian fishing rights on the whole Caspian littoral are leased to a Russian subject for a long period of years at
an annual rental of, at present, about 18,000/, which seems a very small royalty on such an export as that stated
for 1902-03. I believe the value of fish and fish products exported by this concessionaire has not been controlled
hitherto by the Persian Customs Administration ; moreover, in the Russian Customs Statistics for 1898 the value of
fish (fresh, dried, salted, smoked, &c., and roe of fish) imported from Persia in that year is given at Rbls. 960,000 only,
and I have not obtained information of a phenomenal growth in this trade in recent years.
The totals of imports and exports in my Tables I and II, after taking into account the differences above noted,
will be found to agree with the totals of the sums of all the articles enumerated in the Official Commercial Statistics,
but not with the figures given in the Abstract of Imports and Exports prefixed to them. These are not totals of the sums of
the articles therein enumerated, nor is any explanation furnished of the differences.
Table No. 3.
(1) Articles Exported to Turkey but apparently not consumed
in Turkey.
^Raising .
+Gums—tragacinth, ,&c
fWheat . .
tOpium
fSkins, raw .
tWool, raw .
Krs.
Krs.
639.000
2,173,000
177,000
2,541,000
6 r 1,000
72,000
6,213,000
£ 112,900
(2) Articles Exported to Russia, of which part is in transit only.
Intestines
Wool, raw
Carpets
Krs.
£
i 33 )Ooo
4 , 081,000
2,873,000
7,087,000
128,800
(3) Articles Imported from Turkey
Origin.
tBeverages, wines, spirits, lemonades, &c.
tCandles, tapers, &c
tDrugs
|Clothing and underwear, shoes, hats, &c.
t ») j, „
tMercery and hardware
tlron and steel
fTinned sheets . . ,
tManufactures of iron and steel
tTin and zinc in ingots, &c. .
tCopper in bars, &c.
tLeather of all sorts
+ Dyes, other than indigo
JCotton tissues, dyed, printed, &c
tGlass, window
apparently not of Turkish
Krs.
68,000
37,000
65,000
76,000
150,000
250,000
5^,000
27,000
52,000
75 ,ooo
119,000
37 ,ooo
196,000
234,000
24,000
Krs.
1,466,000
26,600
* Trebizond route, known to be for Germany and Britain.
T Kermanshah route.
J Trebizond route.