The imports are mainly white longcloth, grey shirting, rice, jowaree, dates and sugar.
The chief articles of import are cotton goods (European white longcloth and American grey shirting), rice and jowari, flour, dates, sugar and tobacco (the last from Rotterdam).
Shirting, which has long since ceased to refer exclusively to shirt cloths, includes a large proportion of Lancashire manufacture.
The export shirting trade is done mainly on "repeat" orders for well-known "chops" or marks.
The jacconet is a plain cloth, lighter than a shirting and heavier than a mull.