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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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