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'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling' [120r] (244/444)
The record is made up of 1 volume (218 folios). It was created in 26 Feb 1933-2 Feb 1934. It was written in English and Arabic. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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P* 2.4636/33
Enclosure in Foreign Office covering letter
dated jist July 1933.
The situation of Koweit on the
Persian Gulf
The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran.
adjoining
the soutern frontier of Iraq, constitutes a very serious
menace to the Customs revenues of Ira: owing to the smuggling
that takes place therefrom. The problem has been under
consideration for the last two years but no result satisfactory
to Iraq has been reaahed in discussions that have occurred:
on the contrary the position is developing from bad to worse.
The smuggling takes place both by land routes and by
water: the former in the extensive area between Basrah and
Wejaf and the latter by means of the tidal inlet, .cnown as
the Khor Abdalls, which gives direct access from Koweit to
the neighbourhood of Zobeir. The area around Fao at the mouth
of the Shatt-al-Arab frequented by boats that obtain the
fresh water supply of Koweit from that vicinity, is also much
used by traffickers in contraband trade, oince armed patrol
cars have been instituted to protect the dobeir border, the
illicit trade has been forced northwards as far as -Nejaf and
seawards towards Fao.
The incentive to smuggling is afforded by the low
tariff rates imposed at Koweit on goods imported (believed
in most cases to be below 10^») compared with the much higher
duties/
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The volume contains correspondence related to Kuwait-Iraq smuggling. British officials discuss the Iraqi Government’s proposal to the Kuwaiti Government for cooperation to help control smuggling between the two countries. They also discuss the conditions under which permission is given to ship goods between the two countries, the fines that are to be imposed on the boats charged with smuggling, and monitoring the territorial waters, Shat al-Arab in particular.
The volume also contains correspondence related to the firing on and seizure of a Kuwaiti jollyboat by a Fao customs launch near Bubiyan Island, and the seizure of three Iraqi ballams (small boats) by the Kuwaiti customs authorities.The volume also contains a confidential report prepared by the Political Agent A mid-ranking political representative (equivalent to a Consul) from the diplomatic corps of the Government of India or one of its subordinate provincial governments, in charge of a Political Agency. in Kuwait under the title ‘Kuwait note on the contraband problem of Iraq with her neighbours and in particular how it affects Kuwait’.
The main correspondents in the volume are the Political Agency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, headed by an agent. , Kuwait, the Political Residency An office of the East India Company and, later, of the British Raj, established in the provinces and regions considered part of, or under the influence of, British India. , Bushire, the British Embassy, Baghdad, the Iraqi Ministry for Foreign Affairs, the Mutassarif of Basra Liwa, the Hakim of Kuwait as well as Customs departments in Kuwait and Iraq.
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- 1 volume (218 folios)
- Arrangement
The papers are arranged in approximate chronological order from the front to the rear of the volume.
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Foliation: the main foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the inside front cover with 1 and terminates at the inside back cover with 220; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio.
Additional foliation sequences are present in parallel between ff 4-215; these numbers are also written in pencil, but, where circled, are crossed through.
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- IOR/R/15/5/128
- Title
- 'File 2/2 I. Kuwait-Iraq Smuggling'
- Pages
- 120r:122v
- Author
- Al Hashimi, Yasin Pasha
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