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THE INDIA RUBBER >A^ORLD 



[July i, 1901. 



EXPORTS OF AMERICAN RUBBER GOODS. 



DUTY ON ELASTIC BRAIDS. 



THE total exports from the United States of goods classed 

 as " Manufactures of India-rubber " during the fiscal 

 year beginning July i, 1900, up to the end of April, were: 



(a) Not separately reported prior to July i, 1899. 



The number of pairs of rubber footwear exported was 1.349,- 

 063. against 597,614 pairs for the same periud last year, and 

 393,830 pairs in ten months of 1898-99. 



Exports of reclaimed rubber during the same months were: 



1898-Q9. 1899-1900. 1900-01. 



$278,438 $387,397 $364,856 



DISTRIBUTION OF RUBBER EXPORTS. 

 The manufactures of India-rubber exported from the port of 

 New York during the four weeks ended May 28, 1901, were of 

 less value than during the preceding month. They were des- 

 tined as follows : 



16,026 Cuba 6,979 Venezuela.... 218 



British W. Ind. 548 



Danish W, Ind. 12 



Haiti 12 



San Domingo. 102 



Dutch W. Ind. 26 



Argentina .... 119 



Brazil 521 



Chile 144 



Colombia 663 



Ecuador 184 



Peru 133 



Great Britain 



Germany 8,640 



France 3.070 



Belgium 251 



Holland 1,875 



Italy 100 



Portugal 125 



Denmark 2,257 



Nor'y-Sweden. 1,838 



Newfoundland. 81 



Mexico 2.469 



Central Amer. 551 



Australia 14,204 



New Zealand. 

 Philippines . . . 

 I longkong. . . . 



Tapan 



British E. Ind. 

 Dutch E. Ind. 

 British Africa. 



4.030 



1,036 

 390 



1.754 

 347 

 150 



1,356 



Total . . . $70,216 



Some other exports during the same month were : 



Dress Shields. — ToSouthampton $13,624; Liverpool $787; Gla.'^gow 

 $624 ; Hamburg $7291 ; Rotterdam $2^,9 ; Australia $1655 ; Other 

 countries $658 ; total $20,938. 



Clothes Wringers.— "^oQxtiX Britain $2756 ; Germany .51807 ; Hol- 

 land $1033 ; Denmark $1223 ; Other Europe $826 ; Other countries 

 $1098 ; total $3743. 



India-rubber Thread. — To all ports $6190. 



Reclaimed Rubber. — To Liverpool $4311; Manchester $1050 ; Glas- 

 gow $5064; Hull $1777; Genoa $1125; Havre $6097; Hamburg 

 $350 ; Riga $450 ; Other Europe $360 ; Japan $1740 ; toial $22,324. 



Besides which there were exports of rubber cement, dental 

 goods, dental material, electrical material, etc., containing rub- 

 ber. 



BELGIUM RUBBER GOODS TRADE. 



The movement of rubber manufactures has been as follows, 

 the figures denoting values in francs : 



lSy8. 1899. 



Imports 985,234 1,169,549 



Imports (in transit) 2,810,105 3,127,623 



Total imports 3.795,339 



4,297,172 



Exports 898529 667,635 



Exports (in transit) 2,810,105 3.127,623 



Total exports 3,708,630 3.795,258 



Imports in 1899 were chiefly from Great Britain, Germany, 

 and France, the countries being named in the order of the im- 

 portance of the trade with each. Exports were mainly to 

 France, Great Britain, and nearly one-hall to various countries 

 In small amounts. Of the goods " in transit " 1,606,176 francs 

 worth were credited to Germany, and 1,124,714 francs worth 

 went to Great Britain. 



THE rate of duty upon imports of elastic braids made of 

 cotton or other vegetable fiber and India-rubber, under 

 the tariff act of July 24, 1897, has finally been construed by the 

 United States circuit court for the southern district of New 

 York. The decision rendered by Judge Townsend, sustains 

 the contention of Appraiser Wakeman, of New York, that in 

 assessing the duty, the cost of fabrication should be considered. 

 The importers claimed that the elastic braids should come un- 

 der the India-rubber schedule, under paragraph 449, at 30 per 

 cent. a^/T/a/or^w, as goods in which India rubber is the com- 

 ponent material of chief value. The board of general apprais- 

 ers, in 1899, held that while the rubber contained in the elastic 

 braids, in the condition of thread, is of greater value than the 

 cotton component, considered as thread, yet when the labor 

 and other expenses incidental to converting the two kinds of 

 thread into the finished product are analyzed, about nine- 

 tenths of the cost is applied to the textile threads, making the 

 cotton or other fiber the component of chief value. Protests 

 against this decision were carried to the circuit court, with the 

 result above recorded. Such imports, therefore, if the fiber is 

 of cotton, are liable to duty at 60 per cent, ad valorem, under 

 paiagraph 339 of the law of 1897, and if of silk, at 60 per cent. 

 ad valorem under paragraph 390. 



During the controversy a delegation of customs examiners 

 from New York, including some of the board of general ap- 

 praisers, visited mills in Massachusetts to investigate the 

 methods of manufacture of elastic braids, reaching the con- 

 clusion that Appraiser Wakeman was right. The decision by 

 the appraisers was summarized in The India Rubber World 

 [March i, 1899 — page 155], including the testimony of Mr. 

 Joseph W. Green, of the Glendale Elastic Fabrics Co., and of 

 an English manufacturer. 



The New York Sun says: •' There are now 3500 cases of elas- 

 tic braid importations and 3000 non-elastic braid cases await- 

 ing adjustment on the decision of the court in favor of the 60 

 per cent, tax rather than one of 30 per cent. The amount 

 involved annually to the government is in the hundreds of 

 thousands of dollars, and the court's decision will save the 

 government this amount." 



VENTILATION OF A NEW MILL. 



THE newly completed Olympia mills, at Columbia, S. C, 

 designed by W. B. Smith Whaley & Co. (Boston) have 

 been equipped with a somewhat novel arrangement of the 

 blower system for heating and ventilating. Two 14 feet Stur- 

 tevant fans force the unheated air through horizontal under- 

 ground ducts extending along both side walls. Branches from 

 these ducts connect with vertical flues built in the side walls, 

 and deliver air to the various floors. Instead of the usual coil 

 arrangement at the fan, Sturtevant standard corrugated sec- 

 tional base coils are placed in the main ducts where the flues 

 connect with them. This arrangement was used in order that 

 the amount of heat supplied to any part of the mill building 

 could be controlled without affecting the air supply. It also 

 saves the loss of heat in the main ducts in the basement, and 

 permits the use of slightly smaller ducts on account of the 

 lower temperature of the air. All apparatus for this system 

 was furnished by the B. F. Sturtevant Co. (Boston.) 



IndoChina Rubber. — The exports from this quarter during 

 1900 amounted to 756,680 pounds, against 116,160 pounds in 

 1899 and 19,800 pounds in 1898. 



