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THE INDIA RUBBER WORLD 



ISf.i'temhkr 1, 1919. 



This is one of the examples among thousands, of the encrgj- 

 •ith which France has endured the hard trials of the war, and 



P.VEUMATic Tube Department at Wailly. 



of the eftorts wliich have been made to rebnild an industry 

 the Germans believed thev had killed. 



RUBBER IN UNITED STATES COMMERCE. 



NOTICEABLE EFFECTS of after-war readjustments are to be per- 

 ceived in the official statistics of rubber imports and exports 

 for the liscal year ended June 30, 1919. The year's crude rubber 

 imports were 402,471,531 pounds, value $157,928,132; for the pre- 

 ceding year the imports were 389,599,015 pounds, value $202,800,- 

 392; the increase in weight was 12,872,516 but the value fell off 

 greatly, $44,872,260. 



In spite of the efiforts of governments and planters' associations 

 in the Far East and in Brazil to restrict exportation, the price 

 Avenl down. Much the greater part of the crude rubber (almost 

 ■wholly plantation) comes from the Far East; the importation 

 from the British East Indies, 272,119,880 pounds, is the largest 

 on record, nearly 14,000,000 pounds more than last year, though 

 it brought in $.30,000,000 less, while that from the Dutch East 

 Indies, 39,467,761 pounds valued at only $15,411,620, still falls 

 far behind the record of 1917, 53,663,857 pounds. It seems clear 

 that it is the demand of the United States that has influenced 

 the direction taken by the Eastern product, rather than the 

 fear of submarines. 



The Brazilian contribution. 46,407,924 pounds, though an im- 

 provement on last year's 41,277,914 pounds, is still behind the 

 1917 record of 56.818,966 pounds : the price paid for it, $14,744,409, 

 shows less falling off than in the case of plantation rubber. 



There was a marked falling of? in (he importation of allied 

 rubbers and gums. Of balata 1,238.852 pounds, value $593,633, 

 was imported as against 2,449,881 pounds, value $1,278,610, ]ast 

 year and 3.287,445 pounds in 1917. Of jelutong (Pontianak) the 

 imports, free of duty, were 11,363.283 pounds, value $1,199,216, 

 while in 1917, when a duty was imposed, 23,376.389 pounds worth 

 $1,044,^22 came in. On the other hand, gutta percha to the 

 ainount of 4.151,085 pounds and the value of $710,510 was im- 

 ported as compared with 1,151,312 pounds worth $147,323 last 

 year, while substitutes for rubber to the extent of 2,159,716 

 pounds, value $301,479, came into the country ; only the value for 

 previous years is given, is $136,438 in 1918 and $39,815 in 1917. 

 The importations of guayule fell off to 2.990,253 pounds, value 

 $761,060, from the 4,307,539 pounds worth $1,341,095 in 1918. 



Rubber scrap importations dropped again, being only 8,483.383 

 pounds as compared with 13,980,303 pounds in 1918 and 20,517,328 

 pounds in 1917. 



The total imports of india rubber, gulta percha and allied 

 gums were 422,414,904 pounds, value $161,192,551, for the year; 

 in 1918 the imports were 414,983,610 pounds, value $206,542,236, 

 and in 1917 they were 405,431,069 pounds, value $194,688,303 



The value of exports of manufactured rubber goods for the 

 .\ear ending June 30, 1919, amounted to $43,856,588 against $33,- 

 .M3.181 in 1918 and $31,105,075 in 1917; the increase over last 

 .M-ar was $10,511,407, rubber thus doing its share toward the 

 ]ihenomenal increase in .'Vmerican exports for 1919. For the 

 month of June alone the exports were $5,727,642 as compared 

 with $3,192,528 in 1918, an increase of $2,535,114. 



The value of automobile tires rose to $22,630,200 from the 

 $13,977,671 of 1918, an increase of $8,652,529. Exports to France 

 jumped up to $3,227,830 from the $661,648 of 1918, which in turn 

 bad been a large increase from the $425,322 of 1917. For the 

 l.alin-American countries the increase was also marked. Cuba 

 took $2,009,263 of tires compared with $1,336,233 in 1918; Argen- 

 tina, $1,837,884 compared with $1,649,840 of the year before; 

 .Mexico rose to $1,001,233 in 1919 instead of $777,984 in 1918 and 

 Brazil to $667,319 instead of $455,102, while Chile took $1,130,873 

 of American automobile tires, there being no official figures 

 for the two years previous, as Chile was included in "other 

 countries." Altogether Latin-America bought $6,646,572 worth 

 of automobile tires as compared with $4,219,159 in 1918, and 

 $3,217,548 in 1917, an increase of $2,427,413, the value of exports 

 being over 50 per cent more than last year and more than 

 double that of two years ago. 



Exports to British possessions held their own, in spite of 

 the strong British exertions to favor their own goods and to 

 restrain .\merican manufacturers, except in the case of Canada. 

 F"or the United Kingdom itself the exports were $832,492 as 

 against $618,071 last year; for Australia and New Zealand the 

 figures were $880,118 and $884,503 against $819,755 and $946,804, 

 respectively, in 1918. British India took $447,856 as against $416,- 

 411 in 1918 and British South .'Mrica took $620,732 as against 

 $693,065. For Canada, on the other hand, there was a drop 

 from the $1,776,518 of 1918 to only $961,532. To great Britain, 

 therefore, and her chief colonies and possessions, automobile 

 tires made in the United States were exported in 1919 to the 

 value of $4,628,053, which, compared with the $5,270,624 of 1918, 

 shows a falling off of $642,571 ; the falling off in Canada more 

 than accounts for this. 



The export of tires to the Philippines was $1,412,929 as com- 

 pared with $863,727 in 1918; to the Dutch East Indies $812,425 

 worth were sent in 1919 against $347,912 in 1918, while "other 

 countries" account for $5,903,180 in 1919 as compared with 

 $2,530,337 in 1918 and $1,591,623 in 1917. 



E.xports of belting, hose, and packing again increased very 

 largely over those of the previous year, the figures being $5,- 

 716,016 for 1919 as against $4,578,396 in 1918 and $3,532,384 in 

 1917, the million-dollar increase of 1918 being repeated and 

 better in 1919. The rubber boot export which had risen to 

 $4,861,213 in 1918, dropped to $1,607,412 in 1919, while rubber 

 shoes rose to $2,559,641 in 1919 from the $913,128 of 1918; the 

 decrease in this class of goods over last year is, therefore, $1,- 

 508,288. The exports of insulated wire cables for the year 

 ending June 30, 1919, amounted to $8,683,304 worth, as compared 

 with $5,716,275 for 1918 and $7,192,204 for 1917. 



"ARE YOU EMPLOYING A DISABLED MAN 7" 



The Dunlop Rubber Co., Limited. Birmingham, England, it 

 featuring this pertinent question at the bottom of its page ad- 

 vertisement in British trade journals. 



The Department of Commerce gives notice that hereafter 

 its annual tables will be for the calendar year, instead of the 

 fiscal year ended June 30, as heretofore. 



