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NATIVE STATE OF COCHIN". 

 Exports and Imports op Fish Oil by Land and by Sea from Iii:}0 to 1039, Malabab Era. 



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The State of Travancore has a much larger sea-board than that of Cochin, but is not so great 

 an exporter of fish-oil, which may be due to the shoals of fish not being so numerous to the south 

 as they are opposite Cochin. Also there have been great changes in the duties and modes of 

 levying them, which may have occasioned more or less discouragement to the trade. At the end 

 of the year 1037 Malabar era (a.d. 1861-62), the 5 per cent, import duty was raised to 6 per cent. 

 and the 8 per cent, duty to 10 per cent. ; in the middle of 1039 M. E. (a.d. 1863-64), the old duties 

 were reverted to. The same remarks apply to the exports, the tariff for which was revised in 

 1036 M.E. (a.d. 1860-61), when the duty on fish-oil was raised to more than three times what it 

 previously was, or from rupees 3, annas 1, and pice 3, to rupees 9, annas 13, and pice 2, per cwt. 

 The duties were also raised from 5 to 6, and from 6 to 8 per cent, but in 1863-64 were again lowered 

 to what they originally were. On referring to the tables, one observes that the export of 

 fish-oil fell off immediately on extra duties being imposed, in fact it totally ceased until the year 

 1863-64, which was the one in which the old rates of duties were returned to. Eeferring to the 

 returns of the Cochin State, one does not perceive a total cessation of the export of fish-oil at 

 these periods, although there is certainly a great decrease in the amount exported : the same 

 decrease is also apparent in the exports at these periods from Malabar, without doubt it was 

 partially due to a diminution in the shoals of sardines, but there can be no question that high 

 duties are most detrimental to this species of trade. 



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