Customs regulations and free port of Bahrain

This file contains correspondence relating to:

• Exemption from customs duty for British forces in Bahrain (1)
• Bahrain Port; including press reports that Manama had been declared a free port (2)
• Bahrain Government has announced the establishment of a free transit area in Bahrain from 1 January 1958, in order to maintain Bahrain's entrepôt trade with the Gulf Sheikhdoms and her re-export trade with Saudi Arabia (3)
• Bahrain newsletter No 13 announcing the establishment of a free transit area from 1 January 1958 (4)
• Reference to the declaration of Manama as a free port, and the Iranian Government not recognising the decision (5)