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Only very small quantities of rubber footwear are imported into 
Canada. the United States and France. 
58. The export trade in rubber footwear of the four principal 
manufacturing countries. during 1928, was as follows :— 
Quantity (thousand pairs). 
Value £000. 
Kingdom. 
United 
Canada. 
United 
States. 
France. 
United 
Kingdom. 
Canada. 
United 
tates. 
France. 
2050 | 94923 | 9102 | 4.370% ! 
456 1.770 1.903 432 
Export 
trade 
in 1998. 
x Fstimated from weight, at 1} pairs per kg. 
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59. In the Canadian and United States export returns canvas 
shoes with rubber soles are separated from other kinds of rubber 
footwear. It is, therefore, possible to compare more fully the 
sxport trade of those two countries in rubber footwear. 
The average export value per pair of canvas shoes with rubber 
soles was approximately the same in both countries for 1928— 
9s. 10d. a pair. Canada exported in that year 7,376 thousand pairs 
valued at £1,048,000. The United States exported in the same 
year 5,318 thousand pairs valued at £756,000. Of the remaining 
kinds of rubber footwear exported, Canada exported during 1928, 
2,047 thousand pairs valued at £722,000, or approximately 7s. a 
pair, while the United States exported 3,789 thousand pairs, valued 
at £1.147.000. or about 6s. a pair. 
Comparison 
of Canadian 
and United 
States 
oxnorts. 
In the returns of the United Kingdom and France, all kinds 
of footwear involving the use of rubber are included under one 
heading only. 
are 
vT —RUBRBER SOLES AND HEELS. 
60. A feature common to all branches of the rubber industry 
with which we have so far dealt in detail, lies in the fact that the 
centres of the industry in each are located in comparatively few 
countries. This condition does not hold for rubber soles and heels. 
In nearly every country in which there is any rubber manufac- 
turing industry at all, soles and heels are made. Manufacturers 
exporting to these countries therefore have to face considerable 
competition from the local manufacturers. Very little skill is 
required in the manufacture of rubber soles and heels, the only 
difficulty being the preparation of the correct rubber mixture. A 
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Character- 
istics of the 
industry.