مجموعة ٧/٢٨ "بلاد فارس. اليوميات: الشؤون التجارية في مشهد/خراسان: بداية يناير ١٩٣١ - نهاية ديسمبر ١٩٤٠." [و‎‎٢‎٥‎٤] (١٣٤١/٥٠٧)

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(a). A review of the trade with India via Zahidan
and Nok Kundi shows that to the end of
Decemher 1937 commodities weighing 86,625
Indian maunds valued at Rupees 1,752,321 were
imported into Iran, as compared with 72,072
Indian maunds valued at Rupees 2,512,845
imported during the corresponding period of
1936/37. imports of tea dropped from 36,495
Indian maunds valued at Rupees 1,975,453 to
19,733 Indian maunds valued at Rupees 1,250,007
while cereals (chiefly wheat) increased fran
15 Indian maunds valued at Rupees 750 to 36,150
Indian maunds valued at Rupees 117,102. The
imports of wheat are of a very special nature
to meet an emergency which is not likely to
recur.
Exports to India via Zahidan and Nok Kundi
during the same period weighed 76,722 Indian
maunds valued at Rupees 2,479,402 as compared
with commodities weighing 80,484 Indian maunds
valued at Rupees 1,839,437 exported during the
same period in 1936/37.
("b). Reference paragraph 7(h) of the last Commercj&l
diary. Foreign exchange will not after all
he issued against the deposits made in 1936.
The Iranian Government has now cancelled all
"approval deeds", exchange permits aid import
licences held hy the traders. A notification
to this effect was issued in Tehran on the
20th January and published In the local press
• on the following day. Further terms of this
notification are:-
(i) that from and after the 21st January
1938 all exporters will have to hand
over to one of the authorized hanks
the whole of the foreign exchange
obtained hy them from the sale pro
ceeds of merchandize exported from
Iran, and will in exchange he
entitled to obtain "approval deeds’*
for imports to the value of 50*£ only;
(ii) that applications for "approval
deeds’* must he made within a month
from the date of the sale of foreign
exchange to one of the authorized
hanks; and
(iii) that commodities in Grade in are
not affected hy these regulations,
which do not also apply to traders
who importcuerchand!ze without
obtaining foreign exchange from the
Iranian Government.
(c). instructions have been issued permitting
residents of Zahidan and zabul and other cis-
frontier areas of the Khorasan Province, to
export local products andimport certain
authorized articles within certain quotas
for their personal use. The usual Customs
/duties