May 1, 1913.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



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EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE. BRAZIL WITHDRAWING PREFERENTIAL DUTIES 



T7J-1UT T-DUKr-Aj f u ■ -v ON AMERICAN GOODS. 

 Frederick H. Jones, Tver Rubber Co., Andover (chairman). 



Henry C. Pearson, India Rubber World, New York. 



Homer E. Sawyer, United States Rubber Co., New York, . CCORDING to a cable from Ambassador Edwin V. Morgan, 



Frederic C. Hood, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown. /A received by the Department of State on April 10, 1913, the 



Albert Zeiss, Arnold & Zeiss, New York. Brazilian Cabinet, at a meeting on April 9. decided upon the 



immediate withdrawal of the preferential duties hitherto applied 



NOMIN.^TING COMMITTEE. j^ Certain .American goods. A preference of 30 per cent, has 



Alexander M. Paul, Davidson Rubber Co., Charlestown been enjoyed by American wheat-flour, and a rebate of 20 per 



(chairman). cent, by some fifteen other articles, including manufactures of 



L. Dewart Apsley, Apsley Rubber Co., Hudson. India rubber. 



Homer E. Sawyer, United States Rubber Co., New York. The whole value of the American exports to Brazil affected 



Robert L. Rice, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown. by this change is less than $5,000,000, of which rubber manu- 



Charles T. Wilson, Chas. T. Wilson, New York. factures represent about $150,000. The withdrawal of this 



preference does not affect more than about one seventh of the 



.\UDm.Nc COMMITTEE. total United States exports to Brazil. 



J Everett Stone, Plvmouth Rubber Co., Canton (chairman). -^s shown in table A, American imports from Brazil for the 



E. F. Dewing, Boston Rubber Shoe Co., Maiden. fi^"' >ear 1912 represented about 5124,000,000. while United States 



exports to that market were only about $35,000,(X)0. 



ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE. In table B is shown the movement of exports of American 



»„ _ .T111/-T1./1-- ^ rubber manufactures to Brazil since 1907. 



William L. Proctor, Enterprise Rubber Co., Boston (chairman). -.ir-.u u •• r .t. r . - • r> -i j • u .l 



,, - ,' T> ., ^ ,-M- . With the erection of the new factories m Brazil and with the 



James H. Learned, Revere Rubber Co., Cnelsea. , , ^, , . ,, ... , ^, , ■ , ,, . 



. ^ ^ , , . ,,r , , -T-. o T, . , ,~ II. 1 . loss of the preierence, it would seem likely that a portion of this 



A. T. Baldwin, Walpole Tire & Rubber Co., Walpole. ^ , u v. i . . tt •. j c. . r . tu u 



^„ ' ~ , T. ,, r. r, trade would be lost to Lnitcd States manufacturers. They have 



Ira F. Burnham, Stoughton Rubber Co., Boston. , , . i „ .,r » r .u ^ „ i n -i- • 



„„,,,.,, ' . ,° T^ , I ^ T, been supplving about 75 per cent, of the total Brazilian imports 



E. H. Kidder, United States Rubber Co., Boston. r ut, ' j 



of rubber goods. 



SPORTS COMMITTEE "^^^ aboHtion of the preference in favor of the United States 



seems to have given satisfaction to the German rubber industry'. 



Frank R. McKenna, Bourn Rubber Co., Providence (chairman). T^e measure is said to be retroactive, and applying to the whole 



Edwin L. Phipps, United States Rubber Co., Boston. ^j 1913. 5^ jhat the Brazilian importers of the goods affected, 



William L. Pitcher. Easthampton Rubber Thread Co., East- ...jn ^ave to pay the difference of dutj- on their imports of this 



hampton. vear. 

 Francis H. Appleton, Jr.. F. H. Appleton & Son, Franklin. 



WaUam J. Kelley, Arnold & Zeiss, New York. (A) -United States Trade With Brazil. 



DINNER COMMITTEE. Imports from Brazil. Total of Exports to 



Free of Duty. Dutiable. Imports. Brazil 



Charles A. Coe. United States Rubber Co., Boston (chairman). 1907 $96,601,490 $1,279,668 $97,881,158 $18,594,838 



William E. Barker, United States Rubber Co., New York. 1908 74,462,813 115.051 74.577.864 19,364.238 



Robert L. Rice, Hood Rubber Co., Watertown. I9O9 97,261,855 791.374 98,053,229 17,444,759 



Robert B. Baird, Rubber Trading Co., New York. ,910 107,599,155 555.336 108,154.491 22.764,183 



Theodore W. Bassett, United Sutes Rubber Reclaiming Co., 1911 100,457,075 410,109 100,867,184 27,240,146 



New York. 1912 123,881,644 34,678,081 



(B)— Exports of Rubber Manufactu-res to Br.\zil. 



Fiscal Years 1907. 1908. 1909. 1910. 1911. 1912. 



Belting, hose and packing $15,221 $11,861 $25,310 $17,470 $34,442 $40,777 



Boots and shoes 12,983 18,962 23,746 20,785 35,548 41,036 



-Automobile tires 10,112 24,952 



Other tires 7767 11273 



Other goods 27,808 29.044 35,406 66.890 62,596 81,201 



Totals $56,012 $59,867 $84,462 $105,145 $150,465 $199,239 



(Tires were included with other goods until 1911.) 



VATOEIZATIOH nr JOLIET. When the preferential was first applied, this country made 



According to a Joliet paper, there is now being stored in that no special concession to Brazil, beyond that embodied in the 



dtj-, waiting for a rise in the rubber market, a total of 2,500 general tariff treatment of Brazilian products ; under which 



pounds of rubber — the first commercial product from the Mexi- more than 99 per cent, of these products come into the United 



can plantation of the Joliet Tropical Plantation Co., which has States free of duty. This liberal tariff treatment of Brazilian 



been operating for a few years, and has among its chief stock- articles was the consideration for the preference given by Brazil 



holders some of the substantial citizens of JolieL The state- to a limited number of articles from the United States. 



ment is made that had it not been for the revolutionary activities 



in Mexico during the last year or two, the plantation's output mxilA eitbbee lifeboat. 



this year would have been 20,000 pounds, valued at about 80 A collapsible lifeboat has recently been patented by an English 



cents a pound. inventor. It is composed of thin sheets of india-rubber, rein- 



forced with a thin layer of canvas, which does not perish or 



A book for everybody interested in tires — "Rubber Tires and get hardened with repeated coats of paint The resiliency of the 



.An About Them" — this office. boat diminishes the risk of injury from collision. 



