"ملاحظات اللورد كرزون عن بلاد فارس" [و‎‎٥‎٣‎٧] (١٣٨٦/١٠٧٥)

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Imports have increased 228 per cent and exports 51 per cent in this period,
the total trade giving an increase of 63 per cent, or more than three times as
much as might be regarded as a fair average increase.
Import Trade.
The values of imported
thus :
merchandise during the last twenty years stand
Exchange.
d.
Rs. (000’s omitted).
1869-70 .
- 2325
329.275
1870-71 .
- 22'375
333.482
1871-72 .
. 23-125
308,108
1872-73 .
• 22-75
304.730
1873-74 .
. 22-351
316,285
•
Average .
. 22-770
Average
- 318,376
1874-75 •
. 22'221
346,452
1875-76 .
. 21645
371,126
1876-77 .
. 20-491
353,671
1877-78 .
. 20-79
393,260
1878-79 .
. 19761
365,662
Average .
. 20-98I
Average
. 366,034
increase
about 15%
1879-80 .
. 19'961
397,421
1880-81 .
• 19956
503,088
1881-82 .
• 1g 895
469,921
1882-83 .
- 19525
500,030
1883-84 .
• 19’536
527>039
Average .
- 19*774
Average
- 479.500
increase
31%
1884-85 .
. 19*308
531,493
1885-86 .
. 18'254
518,115
1886-87 .
• 17441
586,614
1887-88 .
. 16'899
623,848
1888-89 .
• 16379
665,703
Average .
. 17*656
Average . 585,154
increase about 22%
Last year the value of imported merchandise was R665,601,205, the
average exchange of the year being The trade has just about doubled
in twenty years.
The table of variations in prices of certain staple articles of import at Cal
cutta which was printed in the review of the trade of 1888-89 is reproduced here,