BANKING TRADE AND COMMERCE

IMPORTS

The chief articles of import are cloth, grocery articles, sugar, gul, kerosene, salt, coconuts, areca-nuts, spices, dyes, chemicals, medicines, utensils, iron and steel goods, machinery, footwear, watches, electrical goods, soaps, vegetable oil, stationery and cutlery goods, etc. The imports comprise mainly manufactured goods, while a few foodgrains, such as, rice and masur dal are imported from outside. Rice is brought chiefly from Chandrapur district.

Cloth is imported from important textile centres, such as, Bombay, Ahmedabad, Nadiad, Madras, Kanpur, Surat, Coimbtore, Bangalore and Nagpur. There are about 15 wholesale dealers in cloth at Yeotmal alone who import the goods, and distribute them to the retailers in the district. Handloom cloth is brought mainly from Nagpur, Umred and centres in South India. Sugar and gul are brought from Ahmednagar, Kolhapur, Malinagar, Phaltan, Poona and Sangli. Kerosene comes from Bombay. Coconuts and areca-nuts are imported from Bombay, Malabar and Ratnagiri. Spices come from Bombay as well as South India. Drugs and medicines are imported from Bombay, Calcutta, Baroda, Nagpur, Panvel and Ahmednagar; tea from Bombay and Calcutta; iron and steel goods, and machinery from Bombay, Calcutta, Kirloskarwadi, Nagpur and Jamshedpur. Articles of cutlery and stationery are obtained from Nagpur, Bombay and Akola, while footwear from Agra, Kanpur and Lucknow. Electrical equipment and radio-sets are brought from Bombay, Calcutta and Nagpur.

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