Washington, Oct. 18. The United Kingdom is likely to hold its position of pre-eminence in trade with India despite the inroads of American and other businessmen, the United States Department of Commerge reiterated today.
The Department's Bureau of Foreign land Domestic Commerce has published a survey of United States-Indian trade prepared by Mr. C. K. Moser, Chief of the Far Eastern Division of regional information.
The survey concluded that the British merchant is too firmly entrenched in the Indian trade life to be supplanted by the buyers and sellers of the United States, Germany and Japan.
"It must be apparent," the survey said. "despite all evidences of political dissatisfaction and distempers to the contrary, that British participation in India's social and economic evolution will remain paramount "Britain's long sojourn in the land and acquaintance with its people, intimate and personal as well as Political and commercial, give its influence a rightness and force that cannot be denied or. superseded by that of any other western nation."
The survey said no matter how steadily the United States, Germany, or Japan: "nibble away at the edges of Britain's trade with India, the inroads may not be permanent and they wilt not succeed in overcoming the United Kingdom's pre-eminence,"
The survey reviewed the increase of United States, German and Japanese trade with India and falling off of that of British as a result of the World War, but emphasized the peculiarities of India's impoverished masses as purchasers and the familiarity which the British have acquired with these peculiarities,
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