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TRADE AND COMMERCE
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IMPORTS
The chief articles of import in the district are cloth, iron and
steel goods, building materials, grocery, stationery goods, drugs
and medicines, implements and appliances, toilet articles, hard
ware, rice, wheat and many other miscellaneous useful articles
such as metal utensils, crockery, etc.
Cloth is imported from Bombay, Ahmadabad, Madras, Malegaon, Coimbtore, Bangalore, Yeola, Indore, Nadiad and Nagpur; rice from Gondia, Tumsar, Ghoti and Delhi; wheat from Rajasthan, Madhva Bharat and Khandwa; gram from Punjab, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh; cocoanuts from Malabar and Bombay; tobacco from Bombay. Karad, Satara. Nipani; drugs and medicines from Bombay, Ahmadabad, Panvel, Calcutta, Bangalore; sugar from Kanpur. Sholapur, Belapur, Shrirampur; gul from Jalna, Kham-gaon. Belapur and Kopergaon; spices from Malabar; tea from Bombay and Calcutta; hardware from Bombay, Porbunder, Hoshangabad, and Shahabad; leather goods from Kanpur, Lucknow, Calcutta, Batanagar and Madras; cutlery from Bombay, Calcutta and Indore; and glassware from Talegaon, Ogalewadi and Nagpur.
The old pattern of trade was entirely in keeping with the then existing economy of the district. The chief articles of import were salt, metals, cocoanuts, dates, groceries, oil, hardware, indigo, machinery, and piece-goods. Salt was brought almost entirely by pack bullocks from Surat. Copper and brass were sometimes imported in blocks and sheets and then shaped into various pots. Of the imported cloth, a considerable volume was handloom cloth. Mill-made cloth was imported from Bombay, while the finer fabrics were brought from England. Recently, the composition of imports of even the finer fabrics has changed in favour of indigenous products as against English ones.
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