IOR/R/15/2/1347

The file includes reports on economic and trade conditions on the Bahrain Islands for the years 1939-40, 1940-41, and 1941-42; and statements of discrepancies noticed in Bahrain trade reports for 1938-39 and 1939-40, with remarks. The trade reports list thirty-four countries from which imports had been received (notably Arabia, Iraq, India, Iran, Africa, the United States, Japan, England [United Kingdom], Germany, Holland [the Netherlands], Burma, and Ceylon) under the general headings of animals for slaughter; building materials; cereals; fuel; oils; pearls, shells, and specie; provisions; textile and fabrics; and miscellaneous; and twenty-one countries (notably Arabia, India, Iraq, Persia, England [United Kingdom], Iran, the United States, Java, and Sumatra) to which exports had been sent, under the general headings of building materials; cereals; animals; oils; pearls, shells and specie; provisions; and miscellaneous.