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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[January i, 1904. 



CANADIAN IMPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS. 



THE value of imports of manufactures of India 

 Gutta-percha into Canada during the fiscal 

 June 30, 1903, as officially stated, shows an increase 

 imports from the United States and in the total, as h 

 case regularly for several years past : 



rubbeY and 

 year ended 

 both in the 

 as been the 



United 

 States. 



Great 

 Britain. 



Other Total 

 Countries. Value. 



I42,28S 

 60,398 



Imports. 



Boots and shoes.. $ 141,718 $ 555 $ 15 $ 



Belting 60,382 16 ... 



Clothing and wa- 

 terproof c'oth . . 54,276 411,092 86 465,454 



Hose 42,732 859 3 43,593 



Packing and mats 46,011 567 102 46,680 



All other 228,302 33,722 25,374 287,398 



Duties 

 Collected- 



& 35.254.76 

 . 15,112.67 



102,891.11 

 I5.059-OI 

 16,230. 10 



69,325 50 



Total." $573,421 $446,811 $25,579$i,045,8u $253,873.15 



Total, 1901-02. . . $525,218 $217,812 $ 31,999 $775,0291201,698.64 

 Total, 1900 oi .. . 434,590 154,944 21,738 611,272 163,01244 

 Total. 1899 00. . . 401,867 118, tit 19,083 539,061 149,00680 

 Total, 1898 99... 359.037 119. 523 15,130 463.690 I34,7'76g 

 The imports for 1902-03 other than from the United States 

 and Great Britain — mostly classed under the heading "All 

 Other " — were from the following countries: 



Germany $22,090 Austria-Hungary. . . $1,005 Russia $54 



France 1,990 Belgium 425 China 15 



IMPORTS 01" WATERPROOF CLOTHING AND WATERPROOFED CLOTH, FOR 



SIX YEARS. 



From — 1897-9S, 1898-99. 1890-00. 1900-ci. 1901 02. 1902-03, 



Great Britain.. $110,464 $91,643 $S8, 426 $1 17,754 $179,937 $411,092 



United States.. 35,230 59,894 64.138 52,219 54,020 54.276 



ilerruany 570 252 213 7 158 45 



France 208 53 14 20 72 — 



Other countrus 30 — — — — 41 



Total $146,502 $151,842 $152,791 $170,000 $234,187 $465,454 



There may also be noted the imports of the following arti- 

 cles, not classified by the Canadian customs as" rubber goods,'' 

 but having a relation to the industry : 



United 

 Stales. 



Great Oner Total Duties 



Britain. Countries. Value. Collected. 



Imports, 



Webbing, elastic and 



non elastic $110,896 $48,148 $5,349 $164,393 $29,810.51 



Stockinettes for rubber 



footwear 46.233 11,420 .... 57,653 8,091.50 



Duck, for rubber belt- 

 ing and hose 272,137 1,797 ... 273,934 free. 



Rubber thread 4458 4,458 free. 



The imports of duck were just twice as large as for the pre- 

 ceding year, doubtless due to the movement on foot at one 

 time to have a duty imposed on duck, and the desire of con- 

 sumers to anticipate the operation of the proposed law. 



Exports of Canadian rubber manufactures show a marked de- 

 cline from the figures for 1901-02, when exports to the United 

 States were stated at $189.664— presumably for the most part to 

 Alaska. The distribution of rubber exports for 1902-03 was — 

 To— Value. To- Value. To- Value 



Great Britain. .$44,741 Belgium $2,963 Turkey $ 1,439 



Australia .... 41,584 Chile 3,080 United States 6.556 



New Zealand. 17,037 China 10 



Newfoundland 12.860 France. 2,379 Total $142,891 



British Africa, 323 Germany 8S1 TotaLigo2.. 322,572 



Brit. E. Ind.. 1,180 Italy 2,169 Total? 1901.. 151,656 



Brit. W. lad.. 793 Japan 12 Total, igoo.. 170,488 



British Guiana 1.332 Norway-Sw'n . 46 Total, 1899.. 133,332 



HongKoDg. .. 710 Spain Iig Total, 1898. . 77,685 



Aus.-Hung'y. . 1,311 Switzerland... 1,366 Total, 1897. . 26,121 



RAW MATERIALS. 

 The customs returns embrace the following details in rela- 

 tion to crude India-rubber and allied materials. Of the items 

 in the table, other than India-rubber and Gutta-percha, no mat- 

 ter how enumerated in the customs returns, it is evident that 



the greater part is reclaimed rubber, produced in the United 

 States : 



Classification. Pounds. Value. 



Gutta-percha 2,675 $ 4,375 



India-rubber 2,858,77s 1,532,998 



Rubber, recovered ; lubber substitute and 



hard rubber in sheets 1,745,130 210,464 



Rubber powdered and rubber waste. 797,541 72,217 



Total, 1902-03 5,404,124 



Total, 1901-02 .'. 4,792,088 



$1,820,054 

 1,653,704 



IMPORTS OF RAW MATERIALS FOR EIGHTEEN YEARS. 



India-rubber and Recovered Rubber 

 Years. Gutta-percha. and Substitute. Total. 



In 18S5-S6 739,169 >9,499 758,668 



In 18S6-87 7S5.040 46,508 831,548 



In 1S87 88 1225.893 88,471 1,314,364 



In 1888 89 1,669,014 221,674 t,890,6S8 



In 18S9 go 1290,766 '47.377 1,438,143 



In 1890 91 1,602,644 8,254 1,610,898 



In 1891-92 2,100.35s 106,080 2,206,438 



10189293 2,152,855 195,281 2348,136 



In 1893 94 2,077,703 529,900 2,607,603 



In 1894 95 1,402,844 611,745 2,014,589 



In 1895 96 2.155,576 643,169 2,798.745 



In 1896 97 2,014,896 1.061,402 3,076,298 



In 1897 9S 2.457,321 1,316,494 3,773-8i5 



In 1898 99 2,602,321 2,018,551 4,620,873 



In 1899 1900 3.004.828 2.086,952 5,091,780 



In 1900 01 3,016,862 1,907,975 4,924,837 



In 1901 02 2,911,438 1,881,650 4,793,088 



In 1902 03 2,861,453 2,542.671 5,404,124 



There were exported during the fiscal year, principally to 



the United States, 1,806,023 pounds of old or waste rubber, 

 valued at $122,730 [averaging b)i cents per pound], of which 

 76,972 pounds are described as " not the produce of Canada." 

 SOME EARLY TRADE STATISTICS. 



An old volume of United States commercial statistics — be- 

 fore Canada had rubber factories— contains details in regard to 

 the imports of rubber goods into British North America, in the 



year 1849, which may be tabulated as follows: 



Value. 



Montreal. — India-rubber shoes (498 pairs) ^229 6 3 



St. John — India-rubber boots and shoes (28,330 pairs). . . . Not stated 



Brockville. — Manufactures of India-rubber 432 o o 



Kingston. — Manufactures of India-rubber 483 18 1 



Hamilton. — Manufactures of India-rubber... 277 17 6 



Coburg. — Manufactures of India-rubber 22 o 2 



All were credited to the United States, except ,£91 worth of 

 Brockville imports from Great Britain. ==Other details from 

 the same volume, for the year 1845, follow : 



' Nova Scotia. — India-rubber shoes, 126 cases, value ^565, of which 

 ^545 from the United States and the remainder from British North 

 American ports. 



Newfoundland. — India-rubber goods, value ^212, of which ^185 

 from the United States and the remainder from Great Britain. 



Cape Breton. — Exports of 17 cases India-tubber goods, value ^105, 

 to other British North American ports. 



St. John, New Brunswick, in 1848, imported 24,653 pairs of 

 India-rubber boots and shoes. Newfoundland, in 1849. im- 

 ported India-rubber goods: From the United States, /4S4 ; 

 other North America, ^222 ; Great Britain, ,£49; total, ^755. 



New York exports by sea to Canada in 1847 included 400 

 pairs of rubber boots and shoes, valued at $300, and in 1848, 

 2199 pairs. Boston exported to Canada, in 1847 India rubber 

 shoes valued at $1948; in 1848, $352; in 1849 50, $644. The 

 goods referred to in this paragraph, however, were described 

 as "foreign merchandise," which could have been only the 

 crude Pard made rubber shoes. 



A GOOD trade in hard rubber ornaments exists in Liberia, 

 according to a report by the British consul there, to the Liver- 

 pool chamber of commerce, including bracelets, which the 

 women buy from peddlers at 6 pence each. The Gummi-Zei- 

 tun% mentions that these are made in Hamburg. 



