The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 213)

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The Dispossession of the Peasantry (ص 213)

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stated:
There is . . . no need for soap-manufacturers, who, apart from the
farmer himself, are the principal consumers of olive oil, to import
their requirements from abroad. In spite of the adequacy of the local
supply, 2,500 tons of unrefined olive oil and 765 tons of olive oil
were imported in 1929.°
Between 1928 and 1940, more than 13,000 tons of olive oil was imported, while
for the same period, more than 8,000 tons were exported.®
Moreover, what further aggravated the position of Arab cultivators of olives
were government ordinances that granted import tax exemptions for raw materials
used in the manufacture of soap and other edible oils (other than olive oil), and
starting in 1930, the loss of a substantial part of the Egyptian market for olive oil
soap because of the imposition of high protective tariffs by Egypt.
Besides the tax-exempt imports of olive oil used in soap manufacture
already mentioned, there was the 1928 exemption ordinance on acid oils used for
the same purpose.” Between 1928 and 1939, more than 23,000 tons of acid oil
was imported by European Jewish manufacturers of soap.” The growth in the
manufacture of soap from acid oil presented serious competition to the more
expensive soap made from pure olive oil both in the domestic and regional
markets. By 1937, “Exports of laundry soap to Syria, the second and practically,
°7Johnson-Crosbie Report, 40.
Abstract 1939, 64-5, 70-1; Abstract 1940, 65, 71; Abstract 1943, 97, 99.
Survey I, 452.
“Abstract 1939, 64-5; Abstract 1940, 65.
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