1, 1920.] 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



Rubber Tariffs of Europe. 



THE UNITED STATES in 1918 exported inaiuifactured rubber 

 goods to European countries to the amount of $6,055,568, a 

 sum about one-half that obtained for rubber exports in 

 1917 and less than a third of what Europe paid in 1916. The 

 value reverts to that of the trade before the war. The change 

 from the fiscal year running from July 1 through June 30 to the 

 calendar year, January-December, makes the comparison with 

 previous years, somewhat confusing, inasmuch as the exports for 

 the fiscal year 1917-18 were $9,500,763 but fell off so rapidly in 

 the last six months that the total for the calendar year 1918 

 was only $6,055,568. 



There is a marked decline, not only from the too busy war 

 years, but also from the years before the United States entered 

 the conflict. The only exception is in the item of rubber boots of 

 which there were phenomenal exports in the first months of the 

 )'ear. The best customer was France, which took about two- 



cans have been successful ; as in the campaign the Dunlop Rub- 

 ber Co. has initiated and proclaimed. 



While the countries which have suflfered and are still suffer- 

 ing from the lack of rubber during the war years are letting 

 the tariff bars down for raw materials and even in many cases 

 for manufactured goods, the Entente Powers, even those in- 

 clined to free trade, alarmed at American progress, are imposing 

 protective restrictions, which, even if they do not take the form 

 of tariff duties, make it difficult for foreign, and especially Ameri. 

 can, goods to enter their countries. 



The succeeding extracts from the traffic of the principal coun- 

 tries of Europe show the competition to which rubber manu- 

 facturers of the United States are subject under existing traiff 

 conditions. Owing to frequent tariff changes the figures and in- 

 formation given below should be periodically verified and small 

 trial shipments made to test the rates: 



UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF RUBBER GOODS TO EUROPE— 1913-1918. 



EXPORTED TO- 



Azores and Madeira Isla 



Pelgium 



Denmark 



Iceland and Faroe Islands 



Italy 



N etherlands 



•Totals, Europe. 



Fiscal year, 1917-18 



Fiscal -.ear, 1916-17 



Fiscal year, 1915-16 



Fiscal year, 1914-15 



Fiscal year, 1913-14 



Fiscal vear, 1912-13 



1918, July to December 1. 



•Calendar year 1918. 



4,400 

 144,724 



311,454 

 936,220 

 796,165 

 526,439 



5.990 



1 



577,715 



"2,627 



$32,705 

 2,120,031 



55,076 

 ■lV,238 



105,570 

 "9!546 



5,426 



215 



6,668 



$49,438 



31 



283 



■■■■366 

 1,636 



"2',467 

 19,665 



All Other 



anufacturi 



of Rubber. 



Value. 



6,923 

 "7,172 

 718,118 



257,219 

 532,215 

 460,502 

 1,391,038 

 256,446 



$77,912 

 53,972 



561,368 

 1,384,936 

 1,095,278 

 4,384,715 

 1,091,613 



1,466,866 

 1,011,894 

 1,727,781 

 1,415.939 

 2,404,052 

 298,064 

 62,519 



$744,122 

 484,379 



1,769,297 

 695,089 



1,081,829 

 158,865 

 111,263 



$1,977,029 

 1,764,240 

 2,745,450 



10.992,184 



3,480,114 



1,460,518 



584,014 



$235,941 

 187,187 

 247.537 



1,991.572 



$1,757,353 

 1,589,556 

 1,818,139 

 3,971,250 

 3,697,306 

 2,599,413 

 897,658 



Total 



Values. 



$325 



61,423 



8,059 



4,155.437 



3.07S 



16.833 



259.463 



215 



40,279 



20,231 



9,451 



45,993 



18,825 



14,039 



644,896 $2,402,941 91,581 $141,672 $131,685 $1,192,542 $73,820 $1,890,824 $6,055,368 



$5,201,914 

 4.602.6O7 

 7,453,245 

 19.971,251 

 11.699.786 

 9,500.763 

 2.853,572 



thirds of all the exports, $4,155,457 worth, and nearly three times 

 as great a value of rubber goods as England, the next on the 

 list. 



France's investment was $2,120,031 in rubber boots and $105,570 

 in shoes; she also took $901,013 of automobile tires and 

 $947,480 of miscellaneous goods including druggists' sundries. 



England was the main purchaser of belting, hose and packing, 

 buying $144,724 worth ; she took $232,983 worth of rubber boots, 

 $198,022 of automobile tires and $782,386 of miscellaneous goods. 

 Italy, third on the list, invested nearly all her $259,463 in mis- 

 cellaneous goods ; the three Scandinavian countries — Denmark, 

 Norway and Sweden, each bought from $40,000 to $60,000 of 

 American goods and Iceland put $16,833 into chiefly rubber boots 

 and shoes. 



The amazing drop in shoes from 2,404,052 pair in 1916-17 to 

 298,064 pair in 1917-18 and 91,581 in the calendar year 1918 may 

 be due to oversupply, and doubtless in many lines the end of the 

 war left big stocks in government hands. The falling oflf is 

 partly due to the ability of the belligerant countries to turn men 

 into their own factories, partly to the difficulties imposed on in- 

 ternational trading by the drop in the rates of exchange, but 

 seems also due in part to deliberate and aggressive endeavors to 

 win for home manufactures the market* and goods where Ameri- 



a/cn/i. — Franc, 19 cents; kilo, 3.2 pounds. 

 CRUDE RUBBEH, ETC. 



10. Raw rubber Free. 



BELTING, HOSE AND PACKING. 



33. Machine belting 100 kilos 30.00 



54b. Asbestos, felt, washers, plates, plaited cord and tissues of 

 asbestos, combined or not with rubber. Tubes and pipes 

 of rubber, combined or not with other material. ■- 



ad. lal 



Ex 10. Tires (including tires of rubber combined with other mate- 

 rial, rubber predominating in weight) : 



Solid tires 100 kilos 65.00 



Pneumatic tires: 



Covers ^ for automobiles and motor cycles; 



With studded leather band 100 *i7os 130.00 



Other 116.00 



Covers' for other vehicles, weighing each; 



Less than 600 grams 100 kilos 90.00 



600 Grams and over 100 kilos 60.00 



Inner tubes for automobiles and motor cycles... 100 kilos 170.00 

 F'or other vehicles, including complete single-tube pneu- 

 matic tires for racing cycles, composed of a cover and 

 inner tube combined 100 kilos 150.00 



OTHER GOODS. 



10. Manufactured goods of rubber not elsewhere mentioned. 10% ad. t/ai 

 Ex 27. (7) Hosiery mixed with silk, including hosiery composed of 

 silk and 50 per cent or less of rubber: 



Gloves and mittens 100 kilos 450.00 



.Articles not specially mentioned, containing: 

 Up to 20 per cent of silk; 



Unornamented 100 kilos 200.00 



Ornamented ...ItC Uiot lOO.M 



