THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



[March 1, 1920. 



Good qualities of gutta percha brought high prices. Sumatra and 

 Java produced much less Rambong rubber and much of the large 

 uulpiit of Hcrca rubber is not counted in the British figures. 



BRITISH STOCKS. 



British stocks on December 31 were 24,986 tons of which 770 

 tons were Para or caucho and 24,216 tons were plantation rubber. 

 British imports and deliveries of all sorts for the year were 

 85,816 tons imports and 76,974 tons deliveries ; of these 7,823 tons 

 imported and 7,387 tons delivered were Para and caucho. 



THE WORLD'S PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION. 



Tlie world's production of crude rubber of all kinds for the 

 year 1919 is estimated by authorities at about 334,000 tons. If 

 J 0,000 tons is added for stocks on hand and rubber afloat, on 

 January 1, 1920, it will give 384,000 tons as the world's supply, 

 the greatest amount on record. The demand during 1919 was 

 nearly as great. 



Brazil 

 .\Catto Grosso, 

 Central Ameri 

 West -Africa 

 East .Africa 



ESTIMATED WORLDS SUPPLY, 1919. 

 -Malaya. Ceylui 1 i, I- East Indies. 



The consumption of crude rubber of all varieties and grades, 

 but excluding reclaimed rubber, is estimated as follows for 1919 : 



England 

 Germany, 



Italy, Spain, Scan 

 The Unit.:d States 



This has been mostly consumed. Besides, there is the stock 

 on hand in England, the East and America, say 70,000 tons and 

 16,000 tons afloat. This is admittedly an underestimate. Leav- 

 ing out Russia and the Central Powers, where estimates are 

 mere guesswork, the amount consumed by every country in 

 Europe has increased, while the increase for the United States 

 in a single year was about equal to the total normal consumption 

 of the rest of the world. 







FEDERATED MALAY STATES RUBBER EXPORTS. 



An official report from Kuala Lumpur gives the export of rubber from 

 the Federated Malay States in the monta of December as 10,340 tons, com- 

 pared with 9,848 tons in November and 7,085 tons in the corresponding 

 month of 1918. The total for the vear 1919 is, therefore, 108,393 tons, as 

 against 78,225 tons in 1918, and 79.831 tons in 1917. A better idea of 

 the enormous strides made by the rubber industry in the Federated Malay 

 States — the leading producer of plantation rubber — is obtained by a glance 

 at the statistics a few years ago. So reccntlv as 1909 the total export for 

 the year amounted to only 2,641 tons. In 1912 it had risen to 15,506 tons, 

 and in 1914 it amounted to 30,697 tons 



Details are appended of the monthly exports for the past throe years: 

 1917. 1918. 1919. 



.Tanuary io«s 5,995 7,588 7,163 



February 7,250 6.820 10,809 



March.' 7,088 7,709 10,679 



April 5,955 7,428 7,664 



May 7,179 5,851 7.30S 



Tune 6.009 5,161 7,094 



July 5,798 5,706 8.640 



August 6,487 5,291 10,626 



September 7,C87 6.588 9.841 



October 7.079 5.901 8.381 



November 6,1SC 7,097 9.848 



December 7.724 7,085 10,340 



Totals 79,831 78.225 108,393 



STRAITS SETTLEMENTS RUBBER EXPORTS. 



The exports of plantation rubber from Straits Settlements ports in the 

 month of December last (according to an official report from Singapore) 

 amounted to 14,244 tons, compared with 13.426 tons in November and 

 4,839 tons in the corresponding month of 1918. Transhipments amounted 

 to 1,853 tons in the month of December. For the past year, the total 

 exports of rubber amounted to 145,960 tons as against 62,376 tons in 1918 

 and 73,092 tons in 1917. Part of last year's total was made up of rubber 

 t!iat had accumulated at Eastern ports owing to the lack of shipping: but 

 there was. undoubtedly, a larger protiuction of rubber on the Malayan 

 estates, following upon the abolition of tlie voluntary restriction of output 

 agreed upon by the principal producing companies. The above figures in- 

 clude transhipments of rubber from various places in the neighborhood of 

 the Straits Settlements, such as Borneo, ,Tava, .Sumatra and the non- 

 Federated Malay States, as well as rubber actually produced in the Colony, 

 but do not include rubber exports from the Federated Malay States. Tran- 

 shipments last year amounted to 17,903 tons. 



Appended are details of the monthly exports for the past three years: 

 1917. 1918. 1919. 



January Ions 3,562 4,302 14,404 



February 6,495 2,334 15,661 



March 8.299 8.858 20,908 



April 6.103 6,584 10,848 



May 6,282 13,587 15,845 



Tune 8.775 6.515 5,059 



July 7.351 1,978 7,818 



August 3,786 1,249 8,933 



September 5,679 6.209 10,476 



October 4,702 3,260 8,338 



November 5.555 2,661 13,426 



December 6,503 4,839 14.244 



Totals 73.092 62,376 145,960 



EXPORTS FROM PENANG FOR THE YEAR 1919. 



To ("ireat Britain fici'ls' 232.440 



Europe 



United States 147,987 



Total 380,427 



' One picul equals 133;^ pounds. 



Tancredo, Porto S: C' 

 T. A. Mendes & Co. 



Stow ell & Co 



General Rubber Co. o: 



J. G. Araujo 



Ohiiger & Co 



Adelbert H. .Alden, 



Iligson & 'Fall'.!'. '.'.'. 



B. Levy & Co 



Semper & Co 



J. Essabba 



J. H. Andresen. Limi 

 Amorim Irmaos . . . . 



Simfronio & Co 



Chase Import & Exp. 

 Moraes, Carneiro & ( 

 Paulo, Levy & Co . . 



C. Zencovich 



Francisco Salles Viei 

 Ferreira Costa & Co. 



In transit, Iquitos... 



(Compiled by Stowel! &■ Co., Manaos, 



