ClCTMOER I. 191S 



THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



THE ECONOMIC VALUES OF CRUDE RUBBER 

 IMPORTS. 



A CCORDING to information obtained by the Committee on 



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Rubber and Kindred Products, crude rubber has advantage 



in gross import vahies, cubical storage, dollar values and dead 

 weights, as compared with other import commodities. 



The total tonnage of crude rubber shipped by the Pacific route 

 is shown in the following tabulation : 



Calendar Year. .Tanu.\ev. 



Fio'ii: 1917. 1918. 



British East Indies l>oui:ds 195,325,015 15,299.675 



Dutch E.ist Indies 



59,689,895 6,316,601 



The value of thes 

 below : 



United States dollars is shown 

 Calendar Year. January. 



$150,151,596 



The relative percentage of rubber tonnage on the Pacific to the 

 total tonnage is obtained by the following calculations : 



Crude rubber, on the average, will store about 30 pounds to the 

 cubic foot. Reducing the tonnage of rubber imports at Pacific 

 ports to units of 100 cubic feet by dividing the total pounds by 

 3,000, tlie following cargo space units are obtained : 



1917. 

 85,005 



Rubber cargo tons . . 

 Total Pacific tonnage 

 Per cent of rubber tor 



The values in United States dollars of Pacific Coast imports 

 follow : 



Cale.-jdar Year. jANrARV. 

 1917. 1918. 



Total imports $539,335,640 $51,663,273 



Rubber imports 150,151.590 11.614,094 



Per cent of rubber imports to total imports.... 28 22." j 



Therefore, in 1917 rubber occupied only 3.6 per cent of the 

 total tonnage, but represented in value 28 per cent of the total 

 imports on the Pacific coast. For the month of January, 1918, 

 the corresponding percentages were 2.8 and 22^. 



The money value of crude rubber in a unit of cargo space 

 as compared with other commodities, shows an advantage in 

 favor of rubber. For this purpose nine out of twenty-nine of the 

 principal commodities imported in January and February, 1918, 

 representing 198,835 long tons, value $96,155,357, were taken for 

 comparison. The nine products, including rubber, totaled 76,448 

 tons, value $47,901,094, nearly 50 per cent of the 29 commodities 

 in both tons and values. 



The following table gives the merchandise values of these 

 commodities to one cargo space unit of 40 cubic feet : 



Com 



Val 



R Ce.VT of 

 ESS \'ALri 



Rubber. 



Tea 187.20 $498.00 266 



Burlap* 171.60 513.60 299 



Maiiil,-, hlx-, 139.20 546.00 392 



Coiice 87.00 598.20 5S8 



Peas 79.20 606.00 765 



Gunnief 56.16 629.04 1,120 



J^fitralcs 41.48 643.72 1.552 



Copper 1,334.24 649.04 49 



The advantage in favor of rubber is shown in tlie following 

 graphs that illustrate the relative cubical contents, the dollar 

 vilues and dead weights for the nine commodities. 



CARGO SPACE VALUES 



THE Respective Values per 40 Cubic Feet and the Per- 

 E-xcEss Value of Rubber Over the Other Commodities. 



VALUES & DEAD WEIGHTS 



TON VALUES 



Tea Burlap 

 Illustrating 



