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Coll 28/67 ‘Persia. Annual Reports, 1932–’ [90r] (179/644)
The record is made up of 1 file (320 folios). It was created in 6 Dec 1933-27 Mar 1947. It was written in English and French. 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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79
of formerly prohibited goods, against partial purchase of exporters’ exchange at
official rates, and for their sale by merchants in their own shops, the Government
depot established earlier in the year for selling these goods being closed down.
Balance of Trade (1932-33).
^ 516. According to the preliminary and approximate figures published in
the Persian customs bulletins, the balance of Persia’s international trade during
the year ended the 20th June, 1933, as compared with the previous year, was as
follows :—
(In 1,000 rials and sterling.)
—
1310-11
(1931-32).
1311-12
(1932-33).
Increase or
Decrease.
Imports
669,220
(£7,887,102)
660,277
(£6,719,009)
Per cent.
- 1*3
— 14*8
Exports—
General
Oil
718,024
(£8,462,283)
1,017,948
(£11,997,037)
535,591
(£5,450,198)
1,133,662
(£11,536,196)
- 25*4
- 35*6
•f 11*3
- 3*8
Total exports ..
1.735,973
(£20,459,320)
1,669,253
(£16,986,394)
- 3*9,
- 16*9
Total trade
2,405,193
(£28,346,422)
2,329,530
(£23,705,403)
— 3*1
— 16*4
Excess of exports over imports, including
oil shipments
1,066,753
(£12,572,218)
1,008,976
(£10,267,385)
- 5*4
- 18*3
Trade balance, excluding oil shipments ..
+ 48,804
(£575,181)
- 124,686
(£1,267,792)
Rates of conversion : 1931-32 84-8.’) rials to the £.
1932-33 98*27 „
517. The serious decline in exports, resulting in an adverse balance of nearly
125 million rials, when, as is customary in Persia, oil exports are disregarded,
shows to what extent the trade monopoly laws failed in their principal object.
As the general tendency is to over-estimate exports and undervalue imports, the
actual adverse balance was probably considerably larger than is shown by the
statistics.
518. The following figures, supplied confidentially by the Tehran office of
the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, show the activities of that company during the
year ended March 1933. Comparative figures for the previous year are also
given :—
Non-dutiable imports ...
Dutiable imports
1931-32.
£
478,229
563,851
1932-33.
£
331,149
76,509
Total imports
Local expenditure
1,042,080
397,500
407,658
220,140
1,439,580
627,798
Royalties paid to Persian Government ...
1,095,874
2,004,483
Oil shipments (in tons)—
Cargoes
Bunkers
4,995,308-5
416,155-9
5,646,759-8
438,414-2
5,411,464-4
6,085,174-0
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Annual reports for Persia [Iran] produced by staff at the British Legation in Tehran. The reports were sent to the Foreign Office by HM’s Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary A diplomatic representative who ranks below an ambassador. The term can be shortened to 'envoy'. at Tehran (from 1943, Ambassador to Iran). The reports cover the following years: 1932 (ff 2-50); 1933 (ff 51-98); 1934 (ff 99-128); 1935 (ff 129-165); 1936 (ff 166-195); 1937 (ff 196-227); 1938 (ff 228-249); 1939 (ff 250-251); 1940 (ff 252-257); 1941 (ff 258-266); 1942 (ff 267-277); 1943 (ff 278-289); 1944 (ff 290-306); 1945 (ff 307-317); 1946 (ff 318-320).
The reports for 1932 to 1938 are comprehensive in nature (each containing their own table of contents), and cover: an introductory statement on affairs in Persia, with a focus on the Shah’s programme of modernisation across the country; an overview of foreign relations between Persia and other nations, including with the United Kingdom, British India, and Iraq; Persia’s involvement in international conventions and agreements, for example the League of Nations and the Slave Traffic Convention; British interests in or associated with Persia, including Bahrain and Bahrainis resident in Persia, the 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. at Bushire, the Anglo-Persian Oil Company, Imperial Bank of Persia, and the Imperial and International Communications Company; political affairs in Persia, including court and officials, majlis, tribes and security; economic affairs in Persia (government finances and budgets, trade, industry, agriculture, opium production); communications (aviation, railways, roads); consular matters; military matters (army, navy, air force).
Reports from 1939 to 1946 are briefer in nature, Reports from 1941 onwards focusing on the Anglo-Soviet occupation of Persia, and the role of United States advisors in the Persian Government’s administration.
The file includes a divider, which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.
- Extent and format
- 1 file (320 folios)
- Arrangement
The file’s reports are arranged in chronological order from the front to the rear of the file. Each report for the years 1932-1938 begins with a table of contents referring to that report’s own printed pagination sequence.
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Foliation: the foliation sequence (used for referencing) commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 321; 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.
The file contains one foliation anomaly, f 308A
Pagination: Each of the reports included in the file has its own printed pagination system, commencing at 1 on the first page of the report.
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- front, front-i, 2r:91r, 92r:308v, 308ar:308av, 309r:320v, back-i, back
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