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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[July 1, 1911. 



Materials Used in Rubber Manufacture. 



IN VIEW of the large extent to which chemicals and compounding ingredients enter into rubber manufacture, the annexed tables, 

 specially compiled by The India Rubber World from official returns, will doubtless prove of interest. While the quantities 

 shown are in many cases large, they of course include the consumption of the other branches of national manufacture in the 

 same articles. As illustrating the actual rates and incidence of duties, the figures are, however, directly applicable to the rubber 

 manufacturing industry. 



The statements of the results for the fiscal years 1909 and 1910 practically form a comparison between the Dingley and Payne 

 tariffs. With the continued free entry of many important materials and the reductions in duty on a number of others, American 

 manufacturers should be in a good position for competing with their European rivals in the world's markets, so far as the cost 

 of materials is concerned. 



IMPORTS OF PRINCIPAL MATERIALS USED IN 



Fiscal Year, 1909. 

 , » ^ 



Rate of Equal 

 Quantity. Value. Duty. to. 



Acids. 



Carbolic 4,729,552 lbs. $321,633 Free Free 



Hydrochloric or Muriatic 8,520 lbs. 172 Free Free 



Sulphuric 38,296 Ibs. 660 Kc lb. 14.51% 



Ammonia. 



Carbonate 414,683 lbs. 24,752 V^cAb. 25.13% 



Asbestos. 



Unmanufactured 54,817 tons 1,021,413 Free Free 



Nine mos. ending March, 1911 Free 



From Canada 95% 



Russia 2% 



Antimony. 



Ore, Crude, Sulphide of 6,021,135 Ibs. 170,443 Free Free 



From United Kingdom. 55% 



" China 10% 



" France 9% 



" Germany 11% 



" Servia 5% 



Salts of Antimony 595,095 lbs. 65,596 25% 25% 



Oxide of Antimony 



ASPHALTUM OR BiTUMEN. 



Crude 109,297 tons 480,740 $1.50 ton 34.10% 



From Cuba 6,457 tons 33,333 |fJss20%l ^3.25% 



Dried or advanced 7,232 tons 73,188 $3 ton 29.64% 



From Cuba 15 tons 135 | ,|s^s 20% ! 26.67% 



Nine mos. ending March, 1911 



Burgundy Pitch 814,369 lbs. 25,809 Free Free 



Chalk. 



Unmanufactured 96,311 tons 93,451 Free Free 



From United Kingdom. 75% 



" France 24% 



Ground, precipitated, etc 1,368,005 lbs. 32,225 Ic. lb. 42.31% 



From United Kingdom. 50% 



" France 15% 



" Germany 25% 



Balsams. 



Canada 4,673 lbs. 2,375 Free Free 



Storax 19,582 lbs. 2,499 Free Free 



Tolu 39,668 lbs. 5,589 Free Free 



Cadmium 4,643 Free Free 



Chloride OF Calcium 149,529 lbs. 587 25% 25% 



RUBBER MANUFACTURE. 



Fiscal Year, 1910. 



339,1 16 lbs. 15,797 {^^^'25%} 57-38% 



114,369 tons $486,305 $1.50 ton 35.28% 



13,899 tons 73,438 ||!ss20%} 22.71% 



13,482 tons 136,500 $3 Ton" 29.63% 



115,887tons 537,856 



1,364,166 lbs. 35,210 Free Free 



116.115 tons 103,842 



Free 



Free 



2,728,382 lbs. 



69,293 Ic. lb. 39.37% 



