IOR/R/15/2/1325

This file includes correspondence between the Political Agents at Bahrain, Kuwait and Muscat; the Political Officer and Residency Agent on the Trucial Coast at Sharjah; the Foreign Office, London; Charles Dalrymple Belgrave, Adviser to the Bahrain Government; Claude C L de Grenier, Director of Customs and Ports Officer; the British Consul at Basrah; Director of Posts and Telegraphs, Sind and Baluchistan Circle; Collector of Customs, Karachi; J M Stuart-Wortley, National Air Communications Service, Bahrain; C A Rodstrom, California Arabian Oil Company; Haridas Janimal; 'A Public Man of Bahrain' and 'Leading Merchants of Bahrain'; L V Wallace, Officer Commanding, Royal Air Force, Bahrain; The Export Promotion Department, Board of Trade.

The file includes various miscellaneous customs matters, including: a request for specimen customs certificates from Basrah and Karachi (ff. 1-3, 5-6, 11-11A and 15); Qatar customs and Bahrain customs regulations relating to Qatar (ff. 18A-19 and 67); import of photographs (including the British Journal Photographic Almanac) considered to be indecent (ff. 21 and 23); closure of Bahrain customs during Muslim holidays (ff. 26-27 and 29-30); a request to expedite customs procedures at Bahrain for the sons of the Shaikh of Ras al-Khaymah proceeding on hajj pilgrimage with their families (f. 28); the behaviour of certain lady passengers from the USA and inconvenience caused to customs (ff. 31-37); import of sugar from United States by Haridas Janimal in 1946 (ff. 49-52); complaints of mismanagement of Bahrain Customs (ff. 55-56); issuing of customs certificates by Muḥammad bin Aḥmad bin Sulaymān, Shaikh of Bukhā (ff. 57-61); revised Customs Memorandum No. 4/1 (May 1949, October 1949 and May 1950) regarding British customs rules and concessions relating to passengers' baggage and effects imported into the United Kingdom (ff. 68-70 and 74-79); and Overseas Trade Memorandum regarding importation of motor cars into the United Kingdom dated 27 May 1949 (ff. 71-73).