‘File 28/42 Persian Gulf War Trade Bureau Reports’ [‎4r] (7/194)

(Ill) rxtrfc.ct fron c: .L-tter doted g-f—:L frori _ ,^ ,^ 2 .
hri in to ^Lh^-obhci ^id; husc in rhL.i.crcV/oiL. f PQ.:bc.v ;-
"The situ: tion here (Bchr^in) is getting _'ro
bed to worse. There is no business at all and
the market is getting lower and lower every day
due to the ban on export from Bahrain, ^oofs
of all the houses in the hie rket have been
removed (by Governments and owing to the terrible
heat, no customers or merchants visit the rket.
r,o not send any oocs at present because we are
going to reduce our business, despatch our
"i'lvri s balance oods to Sidhpur fror Bombay, '."e
are expectin, an order fro Covernrent to leave
Bahrain at any time, i t present Government is
building cottages outside Bahrain (nearby
villc ges'' .
Extract from Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. r Jar Trade Bureau report ITo.313.
(c) (ii). T xport from India via rubai. - n the previous
Report (Go.Id) reference was riE de to the i position by the
Shaikh of Rubai of a duty of .10 per bag of sugar re-exported
to Persic . Interceptions seen during the period under review
confirm that restrictions have also been imposed on export of
tea from Rubai. In this connection the following extract is
of interest
letter da ted 17-5-42 from ' 11 Fkbar Fezapoor Lari R 3ros_. ,
nubai. to Trane ^ £ astan Tracing Co.. Karachi; -
"The export of commodities to Persia and Iraq is
prohibited from Rubai but sugar and tea are under control
The Government is charging a Customs Export Duty of m.10
per bag of sugar and .5 for each case of tea. The
Government is considering keeping in Customs bond the
articles of foodstuff End cloth and instituting permit
system for export thereof. We have already informed you
that Rubai is not a big market but that all the goods
received in Rubai are intended for Iraq and Persia.”
"h .qeelie-neous foodstuffs - iree , . lu ppyt into Persia
The following is an extract from a letter dated 17-5-42 written
from Lingah to a merchant in Karachi
ity/e are pleased to inform you the t an order has been
received" from Tehran Customs permitting free import of
all food supplies. This, of course, is a great boon.
It is, however, regrettable that export from Rubai is
prohibited.”
(a) mov:.m:mut oil - / letter dated 1 )-5-42,
from G orb hand as Rarandas, Bombay, to . odul mziz y.li /.I Basse n,
Bahrain, contained two invoices covering the despatch of 1500
tons of cement valued at ...12 / ,500 and 20 barrels oi groundnut
oil valued at .2,802.
fb) Gur..esGea expoie_ cQnarQ_L evas-uon - p leater dated
18-5-42 from Mohd. ; T a'rzook. Karachi* to Abdul iz li Bess am.
p; hvain shows how Ar^h TH Tnbi^ trvincr to cr^t.
larger quota for e'vort. The following is an interesting
extract:-
”The Customs