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Duties on
goods.
Imports and
exports.
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Imports by sea were enumerated in 1790, with reference to the
years immediately preceding, as " British woollens, Bengal piece-^oods of
" near fifty different kinds, chintz of different kinds from the Coromandel
" coast, Madras long cloth, Port Nuovo blue goods, Malabar cloth, Surat
" piece-goods of all kinds, cotton yarn ; Guzerat piece-goods, chintz, and
Cuttanies ; Cambay chauders. Broach and Scindy cotton shauls. bamboos,
" chinaware, sugar, sugar candy, pepper, ginger, cardamums, cloves,
nutmegs, cinnamon, cassia flowers, musk, lump Lack, camphire, turmeric,
" indigo, iron, lead, steel, tin, Tothenaque, red lead, coffee, tobacco, a variety
• c of drugs, and many less important mercantile articles ; all which, except
• the proportions thereof necessary for the consumption of Bussora and its
- immediate vicinity are transported to Aleppo and Baghdad by Carravans
" to Baghdad direct by the river Tygris, and by the river Euphrates via
1 Hill a, and to Shuster by boats. 1 Imports from Aleppo and Baghdad
were copper, arsenic, galls, catgut, Persian saffron and raw silk, gold
anfx silver lace, Angora Shauls, Aleppo flowered piece-goods, Baghdad and
"Aleppo cuttanies, Shamees, velvet, silks, sattins, English shalloons,
1 rench broad-cloth, broad-cloth caps, Lamette, Ara, Contarino, Venetian
false coral and beads of different kinds, large and small looking-glasses,
stained glass, brass wire, coral, cochineal, tobacco, opium, a variety of
'•drugs, and many less important mercantile articles, all which, except
particular articles only intended for the Bussora market and the propor-
'■ tions of the other articles necessary for the consumption of Bussora and
•• its immediate vicinity, are transported, by means of the before-mentioned
" vessels which annually import at Basrah, from thence to the different ports
' of the Persian Gulf, to Muscat and to India/' Besides the re-exports
just detailed there was a true local export of great importance, consisting
of the dates grown in the Basrah district. The annual harvest of these
was estimated to be worth, on the average, a million of Bombay rupees;
and the major portion of it was sent abroad to various ports of the
Persian Gulf, India and the Red Sea. There was a considerable trade
from Basrah to Shushtar, with which there was easy communication by
the Karun River.
Import and export duties were fairly heavy in Turkish 'Iraq.
: was d,v "- Ie ' 1 for purposes of assessment into two classes,
into ' fine " and " gruff " goods : to the former class belonged all kinds
of cloth, and to the latter such "heavy" articles as metals, coffee,
ohacco, pepper and sugar. In the case of European merchant the
amonu of import duty was limited by treaty to 3 per cent, ad valorem,
but in pract.ce it was more, for their goods landed at Basrah, after paying