{"book":"adl0981","page":98,"text":"are in the daily consumption list. The\nsuccess achieved by this office has been\nvery encouraging.\n\nTRADE TRIBUNALS\n\nThe Ministry has further been respon-\nsible for the establishment of trade\n\ntribunals in Kabul and the provinces for\nthe solution of various problems, should\nthey arise. The three tribunals in each\nprovince have been active throughout the\nyear and have solved a number of prob-\nlems brought before them. The primary\ncourts have solved twenty cases, the\nappeals courts sixteen cases.\n\nEXPORT STATISTICS FOR 1336\n(22nd March, 1957 – 21st March, 1958)\n\nTHE total figure for exports from\nAfghanistan during the year was\n1,984 million Afghanis. This was\n360 million Afghanis over the figure for\n1335. Exports in 1335 amounted to 1,624\nmillion Afghanis and in 1334 to 1,527\nmillion Afghanis.\n\nBased on an international classification\nof commodities, Afghan export goods are\ndivided into 16 major categories. Each\nof the major divisions is subdivided,\nbringing the total number of exported\ngoods to 119 items. Major categories of\nexport goods are :\n\nFresh fruits—twelve kinds.\nDried fruits—thirty kinds.\nFresh vegetables—sixteen kinds.\nSeeds and spices—nine kinds.\nHides and skins—six kinds.\nFurs—five kinds.\nWool—four kinds.\nPlanting seeds—five kinds.\nMedicinal herbs—fifteen kinds.\nFabrics—four kinds.\nCarpets and rugs—seven kinds.\nSemi-precious stones—three kinds.\nCotton, casings and live animals.\n\nThe countries to which Afghan com-\nmodities have been sent are : India, the\nSoviet Union, the U.S.A., Great Britain,\nthe West German Federal Republic,\nCzechoslovakia, Pakistan, Holland, Leba-\nnon, Poland, Singapore, Austria, Japan,\nKenya, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Iran, Egypt,\n\nSweden, Switzerland, Syria, Bahrein,\nChina, Iraq, and France.\n\nDuring the year the major receiving\ncountries were :\nmillion\nAfghanis\nIndia .......................................... 580\nU.S.S.R. ..................................... 455\nU.S.A. ........................................ 336\nGreat Britain .............................. 255\nGermany ................................... 118\nCzechoslovakia .......................... 112\nPakistan ..................................... 97\n\nAfghanistan's leading customers were\ntherefore India, receiving 29 per cent. of\nthe export commodities during the year,\nRussia receiving 23 per cent., U.S.A. 17\nper cent., Great Britain 12 per cent.,\nGermany 6 per cent., Czechoslovakia 6\nper cent, and Pakistan 5 per cent.\n\nThere follows a list of the country's\nmajor export commodities during 1336\nwith their export values and the amounts\nwhich were sold :\n\nCom- Export\nmodity Value Amount\nmillion\nAfghanis\nDried fruits 530 27,400 metric tons\nKarakul 446 2,900,000 pelts\nRaw cotton 320 17,706 metric tons\nWool 215 6,972 .. ..\nFresh fruits 144 31,497 .. ..\n\n95","chars":2779,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0981/00098.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":109,"title":"Afghan progress in the third year of the plan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0981/98","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0981/canvas/98","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0981/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0981_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}