Department of Commercial Intelligence and Statistics India. Review of the Trade of India in 1936-37

Quantity and value of the principal articles of Imports into the Kathiawar ports. 327 58. [...] But in the latter half of that year these tendencies received a fresh impetus by the collapse of the gold block under the leadership of France and the dvaluation of the erstwhile gold currencies in September. [...] The main cause of the unfavourable sitution was the breakdown of the Agreement regarding working hours in the jute mills which created considerable nervousness as regards the future of the industry. [...] Linseed.—Linseed shared in the general improvement of oilseed prices but to some extent the expectation of a large crop in the Argentine had a dam' ing effect on the market and the rise in the earlier part of the year was not as great as had been expected. [...] The failure of the Argentine crop in three years and the preference on imports into the United Kingdom greatly increased the exports from India except in 1935-36 when the large Plate crop of 1934-35 came into the world market.