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BRAZILIAN PLANS. 



TT'OLLOWING up the legislation of the state of Para 

 the next step has been an effort to secure the co- 

 operation of the Federal Government in the reme- 

 dial policy specified in the August, 1911, issue of The 

 India Rubber ^^'oRLD (page 396). This legislation pro- 

 vided for the issue of a foreign loan equalling $30,000,000 

 upon joint state and federal responsibility ; the interest 

 being covered by a tax on rubber exports, representing 

 about 6 cents per pound. Loans on land and produce 

 would be made through a bank to be established at Para. 

 It is, of course, an open question whether a country with 

 the resources of Brazil needs to borrow a large sum of 

 money to tide over present difficulties in one of the lead- 

 ing national industries. The solution of that question 

 lies to a great extent in the removal of the obstacles to 

 cheap production, to which reference is made in the Ger- 

 man opinion quoted in another column. Brazil must evi- 

 dently grow rubber cheaply in order to compete in the 



world's markets and it is therefore to this branch of the 

 subject that the earnest attention of Brazilian economists 

 and legislators will be directed in the near future. 



The past month has witnessed various interesting new 

 developments in the rubber crisis. As told in another 

 column, the congress of state and commercial delegates 

 lately held at Rio de Janeiro at the invitation of the 

 Minister of Agriculture, passed at its closing session a 

 resolution cordially approving the government proposals 

 for dealing with the rubber crisis, on the basis of reduc- 

 ing cost of production, and stimulating consumption by 

 reductions in the export duties. 



From cable advices it would seem that there has since 

 been another meeting (about September 15), when the 

 Government was asked to take action for advancing the 

 price of rubber. According to reports, it was contem- 

 plated to stop rubber exports from Para next year by 

 placing a prohibitive export duty of double the present 

 rate on the product raised in Para and Manaos. This 

 measure, it is understood, would be applied if the price 

 did not reach the equivalent of $1.80 to $1.92. The 

 valorization plan would likewise be probably put in 

 operation. 



WHAT HIGHER RUBBER MEANS. 



A T no time in the history of the rubber trade could 

 rubber manufacturers view a fifty per cent, export 

 duty on Brazilian rubber, and a restriction of the Acre 

 product with greater calmness. Factory stocks have ac- 

 cumulated, reclaimed rubber is understood and manufac- 

 tured on a greatly increased scale here and abroad, plas- 

 tics, such as mineral rubber, are utilized the world over, 

 and plantation receipts are constantly growing. 



If Brazil does as she plans, as she certainly has every 

 right to do, rubber will undoubtedly be higher for a time. 

 The result, however, will be a tremendous increase in 

 planting, a further exploitation of the lesser rubber pro- 

 ducers, the substitution of many plastics for rubber where- 

 ever it is possible, and the final disappearance from the 

 market of all wild rubber, the cost of collection of which 

 is above 50 cents a pound. 



MALAYA FIVE YEARS FROM NOW. 



PVR. H. N. RIDLEY, the well-known director of the 

 ■^"^ Botanic Gardens, Straits Settlements, in his re- 

 port covering the past year, makes the following ex- 



