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PERSIA.
The "whole external trade of Persia may he roughly valued at 4,000,000/. sterling annually, of which 2,500,000/. may 'he taken as the value of the imports, and 1,500,000/. as that of the exports. A diminution in the latter to the extent of nearly 1,000,000/. sterling has taken place Avithin the last three years, owing to the failure of the most important industry of the country, the silk production.
The imports from Europe and India into Persia consist of cotton manufactures, cloths, silks, cotton yarns, cochineal, sugar, tea, jewellery, cutlery, china, crystal, glass-ware, iron, brass, and copper in sheets, tin, paper, indigo, and fire-arms ; and the exports, of raw silk, raw cotton, tobacco, opium, wheat, gall-nuts, wool, furs, madder -root, dried fruits, shawls of inferior quality, and coarse calico for the Russian and Turkish markets.
The trade with Europe is carried on almost entirely over the noi'th- ern frontier, by way of Trebizonde and Georgia, through Tauris. In the year 18G7, the imports and exports over this frontier were as follows : —
Imports.
Value in tomans
Value in sterling
Cotton manufactures from England
Chests of tea
Cloth .
Silks .
Cotton yarns
Cochineal
Sugar .
Glass — crystal and miscellaneous
Sundry articles of small value
Total
3,000.000
84,600
225,000
240,000
12,000
5,120
160,000
707,600
7,416
4.441,736
£
1,200.000
33,840
90.000
96,000
4,800
2,048
64,000
283,040
2,966
1,776,694
Exports.
Articles
Value in tomans
Value in sterling
Raw cotton .......
Raw silk .......
Tobacco .......
j Gall-nuts .......
1 Coarse calicoes ......
Total
65,456
936,000
87,840
33.900
66,000
£ 26,182 374,400 35,136 13,560 26,400
1,189,196 j 475.678
