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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[November i, 1902. 



INDIA-RUBBER GOODS IN COMMERCE. 



EXPORTS FROM THE UNITED STATES. 



OFFICIAL statement of values for the first eight months 

 of 1902, compared with the same period of three years 

 preceding, not including exports to Hawaii and Porto Rico: 



Wiborg 105 



Windau 80 



Wasa 20 



Argentina .... 168 



Mexico 67 



N,;w Zealand. . 3,487 



Peru 23 



Uruguay 24 



Australia 3. '61 



Japan 18 



British Africa. 683 



(a) Included in "All Other" prior to July i, 1899. 



The number of pairs of rubber boots and shoes exported 

 during August was 386,334, against 260,707 pairs in the same 

 iTionth of 1901, and 221,021 pairs in August, 1900. 



RUBBER GOODS EXPORTS FROM NEW YORK. 

 Usually about 60 per cent, of the total exports of rubber 

 goods from the United States are shipped from New York. 

 The value of such shipments from this port during the three 

 months ending September 30, 1902, was $434,839, and the desti- 

 nation of exports was as follows : 



FOUR WKEKS ENDING JULY 29. 



Details in The India Rubber World, September i $it7.578 



FOUR WEEKS ENDING AUGUST 26. 



WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 30. 



Details in the next India Rubber World $35.ii7 



The average value of such exports for the thirteen weeks was 

 $33,449. The weekly average during the corresponding three 

 months two years ago was $26,969. 



Some other exports from New York during the three months 

 ended September 30, 1902, were in value as follows : 



Copenhagen.. 1,150 Hull 3,029 



Drammen 20 Kiel 125 



Dlisseldorf 330 Liverpool 684 



Frankfort 692 London 5,oi8 



Glasgow 1,290 Manchester... 22 



Gothenberg. . . 342 Rotterdam.. . 3,687 

 Hamburg.... 3,494 Stockholm.... 506 

 Havre 389 Stavanzer 75 



CLOTHES WRINGERS. 

 Abo $ 20 



RUBBER THREAD. 



Antwerp $ 2.675 



Barmen 300 



Genoa 5.260 



Hamburg. — 12,145 



Havre 2,359 



Hull 1.427 



Rotterdam. . . . 3,487 

 Central Amer.. 1.235 



Total $33,317 



DRESS SHIELDS. 



Total $28,888 



RUBBER CEMENT. 



Antwerp $ 601 



Barcelona 300 



Brussels 250 



Breslau 60 



Copenhagen .. 250 



Christiana .... 10 



Frankfort. . . . 400 



Fiume 50 



Hamburg 910 



Genoa 15 



Mannheim ... 64 



Offenbach .... l6 



Rotterdam 815 



Vienna 18 



Cuba 135 



British Africa. 34 



Australia 60 



RECLAI.MED RUBBER. 

 Christiana ... .$ 940 



Genoa 5,600 



Glasgow 18,236 



Hamburg 5.293 



Havre 12,694 



Liveipool .... 5,980 



London 1.42S 



Stettin 25 



Japan 230 



Total $50,426 



CRUDE RUBBER. 



Christiana .. . . 

 Gothenberg. . , 



Glasgow 



Hamburg 



Havre 



Liverpool 



London 



Lyons 



Leith 



Manchester. . , 



Vienna 



Japan 



British Africa. 

 New Zealand 

 Nova Scotia.. 



i 936 



75 



1. 717 



19.734 



20,472 



26,320 



7.010 



88 



I4.35« 



1,050 



50 



441 



360 



U 



58 



Total.. .$123,326 Total... $3,988 Total $92,676 



The goods classed underthe above headings do not embrace 

 all the manufactures of India-rubber exported. For example, 

 some hard rubber, not embraced in the table above, must have 

 been included in the exports of " electrical material," which in 

 a recent week amounted in value to $41,041, aside from "elec- 

 trical machinery." Then some of the vehicles, bicycles, and 

 baby carriages exported must have had rubber tires. " Bicycle 

 materials" amounted in the same week to several thousand 

 dollars, dental goods to $6966, and there were toys, sporting 

 goods, photographic supplies, druggists' sundries, scientific in- 

 struments, and numerous other items of which rubber often 

 forms a part. Outfits of mining machinery and the lik; — a 

 single shipment of " drilling material " amounted to $1 1,412 — 

 doubtless embrace more or less rubber hose, belting, packing, 

 etc., not separately specified in the customs statistics. Carpet 

 sweepers, exported during the week to the value of $1388, and 

 "talking machines," worth $12,744, also involve the use of rub- 

 ber ; there was a telegraph cable invoiced at $3205 ; there were 

 stamp goods — and the list might be extended indefinitely. 



Boston ranks next to New York in the value of rubber goods 

 exported, with small quantities from several other ports. 



CANADIAN RETURNS. 

 Values of imports for consumption, for the year ending 

 June 30, 1902, of India-rubber and Gutta-percha, and manufac- 

 tures thereof : 



Crude $1,986,913 



From Great Britain... 

 " United States... 

 " Other countries 



Manufactured 



From Great Britain... 

 United States... 

 Other countries. 



The smaller return for raw material for the past year doubt- 

 less is to be accounted for in part by a slightly smaller impor- 

 tation, but chiefly in the lower prices of India-rubber prevailing 

 since January last. =j=The crude materials embraced in the 

 return for 1901-02 were: 



Gutta-percha (7358 pounds) $ 2,125 



India rubber (2,903,080 pounds) 1,404, 2';7 



Reclaimed rubber and rubber substitute 249,893 



Total $1,656,275 



