AND THE MALAY STATES 
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believe that the Para from the Amazon is a better business proposition — 
just to start them thinking, therefore, I want to ask them to read the 
following : 
FINE PARA RUBBER FROM CEYLON. 
Sells at Liverpool, per pound $1.20 
Costs f. o. b. Liverpool 17 
Export duty nil .17 
Planters’ profit $103 
WTLD "FICUS ELASTICA.” 
FINE PARA RUBBER FROM BRAZIL. 
Sells at Liverpool, per pound $1.00 
Costs f. o. b. Liverpool, minimum 21 
Export duty 23 * -44 
Profit $0-56 
The above figures both for Ceylon and South America are very 
small — that is the cost figures. It is probable that twenty cents a pound 
