October 1, 1919.; 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Rubber Tariffs of South America. 



EXPORTS of manufactured rubber goods from the United 

 States to South American countries, were $5,295,962 for 

 1918. and, while they no longer show the phenomenal an- 

 nual increases of the last four years, have at least held their 

 own with $5,522,453, the figures of the record year 1917-1018. 

 The data of comparison have been changed, for the official 

 figures are now for the calendar year, whereas from 1907 to 

 1918 they were for the fiscal year. The record for this first 

 calendar year, 1918, therefore, includes the figures for the months 



.\rgentina with $1,429,647 worth is our best customer for auto- 

 mobile tires, with Chile a good second with $951,102, followed by 

 Brazil $389,822, Uruguay $213,290, Peru $205,887 and Venezuela 

 $136,881. Chile buys most belting, hose and packing, to the value 

 of $389,694, Brazil comes next with $197,360, Argentina third 

 with $163,077 and Peru fourth with $82,348. The ABC coun- 

 tries are also the best customers for boots and shoes, druggists' 

 supplies and other manufacturers. 

 The order in total purchases of rubber goods is : Argentina 



UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS TO SOUTH AMERICA^190S-191g. 



from January to June, which are also used in the record for 

 the fiscal year 1917-18, of which these months constitute the 

 second half. 



The exports, which had been steadily increasing for ten years 

 and had about trebled in that time, took a great jump in 1914-15, 

 the second year of the war, rising from nearly $800,000 to over 

 $2,400,000; the following year added $2,000,000 more and the 

 year after another million. The increase exports were almost 

 wholly of tires and of belting, hose and packing. The former, 

 amounting to $62,800 in 1910-11 had risen to $264,465, in 1914-15; 

 this became $1,344,314 in 1915-16, $2,819,499 in 1916-17, $3,762,687 

 in 1917-18, and stands at $3,672,606 in the calendar year, January 

 to December, 1918. 



So with belting, hose and packing which stood at a little less 

 than the annual average in 1914-15 with $205,223; it rose to 

 $402,753 in 1915-16, nearly double, to $678,441 in 1916-17, to 

 $969,669 in 1917-18, again doubling the exports of two years 

 before, and remains at $942,488 in the calendar year 1918. 



Exports of boots and shoes were irregular with a strong 

 tendency to decline ; the number of pairs, 59,149, is, with one 

 exception, the smallest exported in a dozen years, while the 

 value $55,829 is also below the average. Druggists' sundries ap- 

 pear for the first time in the list with $136,611 for the fiscal 

 year 1917-18 and $112,809 for the calendar year 1918. In both 

 years they should be added for the purposes of comparison to 

 "other manufacturs of rubber" with which they were classified 

 before. This will diminish the great apparent falling off in that 

 class, by making the total for "other manufactures" $722,708 

 in 1917-18 and $619,089 in 1918. 



Looking at the individual countries it will be noticed that 



$1,889,401, Chile $1,572,766, Brazil $735,167, Peru $323,077, Uru- 

 guay $266,947, Venezuela $178,980, Colombia $97,841; French 

 Guiana with $116 tails the list. 



The succeeding extracts from the tariffs of the principal 

 countries of South America are intended to show the competi- 

 tion to which the United States rubber manufacturers are sub- 

 ject under existing tariff conditions. Owing to frequent tariff 

 changes, the figures and information given below should be 

 periodically verified, and small trial shipments made to test the 

 rates. 



ARGENTINA. 



/;()ui;n;i-ii(.t. — Peso (gold). 90. S cents; kilo, 2.2 pounds; g. w,. 



gross weight. 



Duty per 

 CBVDE BUBBER, ETC. 

 Tariff Kilo, in 



No. Pesos. 



18. Caoutciiouc in the natural state 0.05 



IS. Caoutc!:ouc purified (goma elasttca) 0.324 



PASTES, ETC. 

 18. Liquid rubber, in iny receptacle (g w.) 0.135 



TIBES. 



13. Tires for automobiles 0.54 



io. Xircs for carriage and cart wheels 0.405 



BOOTS AMD SHOES. 

 18. Boots and shoes of cloth, with caoutchouc soles; 



For infants per doicn 2.10 



For children 2.52 



For men and wcmen 5.04 



Of caoutchouc (.caucUo). includlny weight of recepUcle 0.525 



Of cloth and rubber, with sole of rubber: 



I'l' to 25 centimeters per dottn 1.26 



(/f greater size 2.94 



Of rubber and felt: 



For children 1.26 



For infants 0.63 



For women 1.68 



Fol men . 2.10 



