COMMERCE
1169
The following table shows (in thousands of krans : 30 krans = It in 1917-18 and 28 krans = 11 in 1918-19) the value* of the chief imports into, and exports from, Persia : —
Imports
1917-18
1918-19 "1000
Exports
1917-18
1918-19
1000 .
lOOo"
IU00
i Krans
Krans
Krans
Krans
Cottons ....
180,64)
154,763
Fruits
21.793
Sugar ....
•5 .
7.130
Tea
Cotton ....
3.719
and silver bars
LIN
Do. coin
■
3.140
Rice .....
Petroleum
16,041
7,596
Gold and silver coins
Varn ....
Gums ....
Flour ....
! 4,561
3.117
Opium
Woollens ....
- MH
Wool
hOCjl
Indigo and kennas
8,111
Cocoons
411
llah
5,351
2,810
Skins
Rice
19,045
14,14!
Animals .
Spices .
1 3,471
Silk stuff
Wool
! 3,071
914
Cottons ....
Animal? .
1 6,514
7,015
Hides ....
3,23<
856
.wis
2,155
Silk . . . .
—
—
Tin, zinc and lead .
869
1,732
Wheat and barley
1.863
Tobacco . . . .
404
858
Pearls, etc
—
—
Copper and nickel .
—
Drugs ....
1,597
1,273
Iron and steel
5,584
3,310
Timber ....
437
Do. manufactured
17,814
15,292
1 Tobacco ....
2,031
1,874
Timber
1
Petroleum
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Iii the years ending March 20, 1918 and 1919, the distribution of the trade of Persia was as follows : —
Afghanistan
Germany
Austria
Belgium
China
Egypt
United States
British Empire .
France and Colonies
Italy .
Netherlands and Col
Russia
Switzerland
Turkey
Muscat
Oman .
•Tapin .
Imports
Export*
1917-18
1918-19 £
1917-16 1918-19
i
1
270,300
41,910 47,050
870
1,080
—
—
1,440
1,950
—
—
3,670
—
—
38,400
145,702
790
7,107
401,170
577,110
9S3.490
2,045,605
13,850
4.024
242.370
13.692.1S0
3,691,310
4.177.029
19,574
1,600
4.620
—
—
340,000
324,530
—
—
1,192.410
5,402,540
1,890,455
900
11,430
—
—
888,800
368,051
561,320
1,333,014
2,780
4,333
214,415
178,280
332,846 151,536
—
67,834
—
Of the total trade in the year ending March 20, 1919, England enjoys 70 per cent.
Tonnage entered at Bushire, Ling ah, Bnnder Abbas, Mohainmerah, and several smaller ports was : in 1918-19, 1,444,393 tons, of which 98-2,000 tons were British, and 56,589 Japanese. At Caspian Sea ports in 1918-19, 407,172 tons, all Russian.
There are six great trade routes :— From Knzeli to Teheran, 235 miles ; from Kazvin to Hamadan, about 186 miles ; from Jnlfa to Tabriz, about 86 miles ; from Astara to Ardebil, about 43 miles ; from Ashabad to
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