Monthly Survey of Business Conditions in India July 1940

The progressive figures must not therefore be understood as necessarily representing the sum of the monthly figures shown in the table or the sum of the latest month's figures and of the progressive figures published in the preceding month. [...] 4 CONTENTS PART I—(Notes) 1. GENERAL BUSINESS CONDITIONS DURING THE MONTH 2. PRINCIPAL COMMODITIES AND INDUSTRIES :— (i) Cotton Manufactures. (ii) Cotton raw. (iii) Jute Manufactures. (iv) Jute raw. PAGZEI. 194. 194-197 197-200. 201-204 204-205 (v) Iron and Steel. 206-209 (vi) Sugar. 210-211 (vii) Coal. 211-213 (viii) Tea. [...] of Wholesale Prices. 233 III (2) Prices—Declared Values of Exports and Imports (Index Numbers). 233 III (3) Cost of Living (Index Numbers). 234-235 IV Railways. 235 V Shipping. 236 VI (1) Foreign Trade—Exports (Value and Volume). 236-239 VI (2) Foreign Trade—Imports (Value and Volume). 240-243 VII Inland Trade—Total Volume of Trade [...] Signs of increasing confidence were visible in the early part of the month as a result of the British successes against the French fleet and the satisfactory issue of the Anglo-Japanese negotiations regarding the closure of the Burma-China road. [...] Stocks of sacking cloth and bags at the end of July 1940 were 25.5 crores of yards and regitered an increase of 4.3 crores of yards as compared with the previous month and of 5.9 crores of yards as compared with the same month of last year.