INTRODUCTION. 



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NATIVE STATE OF TRAVANCORE. 



Statement showing the Quantity, Tariff, Value of, and the amount of Duty levied on 

 Salt Fish imported into and exported from, during the 10 years ending 1039, M.E. 



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In examining the returns of the exports and imports of salt fish it is evident how vastly the 

 trade has increased of late years. Thus in British Malabar the value of the exports have averaged 

 upwards of £5000 yearly during the last ten years : for the first half of which period the yearly 

 average was under £4000, and for the last half rather above £6000. 



In the Native State of Cochin the exports of salt fish are recorded in the numbers exported, 

 but having been only furnished with the returns for three years, they are insufficient for drawing 

 deductions from. In dried fish there is also a difficulty respecting the exports and imports owing 

 to the returns being made in bundles, but it will be perceived that the Cochin State imports more 

 dried fish than it exports ; in fact, although it has exported 9,41 9 J- bundles into Travancore, it has 

 imported from thence 14,004§, leaving a balance of 4,585-f in favour of Travancore : whilst the 

 exports by sea have increased from 249 in the first moiety of that period, to 5555J in the latter 

 half. In fact, the Native State of Cochin appears to be of little note as an exporting country for 

 salt and dried fish. 



In the Native State of Travancore, although the imports of salt fish have become five times 

 larger than they were ten years since, the exports show that the quantity cured in that State has 

 largely augmented : thus the imports which averaged a little above 11 cwt. yearly in the first half 

 of the last ten years, rose to very close upon 3000 cwt. yearly in the last half of that period. In 

 the exports the rise has been much greater than in the imports ; for the first half of the period 

 under review the average yearly exports were 36,005 cwts. and for the last half 41,318 cwts.; 

 showing an augmented yearly export of about 4,713 cwts. of salt fish, or after deducting 

 from the increased imports, an average yearly increase exported of upwards of 3,600 cwts. of salt 

 fish ; consequently the State of Travancore has dons much more during the last few years towards 



