Exports from France of Manufactures of rubber and gutta-percha,
other than tyres.
Destination.
United Kingdom
Algeria es
Belgo-Luxemburg
Switzerland ...
Netherlands ...
Syria ... we
Czecho-Slovakia
Austria an
Germany _—
Egypt ...
Turkey vee ee
Indo-China ... _ ans
Spain ... . sun -
[taly ... ven a =
19926.
Tons.
1,481
270
242
103
186
260
40
db)
85
319
182
131
127
206
|
097
Tons.
1,487
1,019
372
123
315
308
219
187
164
155
155
140
134
120
19928 (a).
Tons.
1,690
()]
1,340
971
-{B)
172
201
(a) Provisional figures.
(b) Not available.
Exports of rubber manufactures other than tyres of less than
100 tons weight have been omitted.
Countries to which less than 100 tons of these goods ’’ were
exported have been omitted. Yet the fourteen countries for which
details have been given took 5,700 tons out of the 6,003 tons
exported from France in 1927. In contrast with this total the
exports of rubber belting alone from the United Kingdom in 1927
exceeded 11,000 tons (c.f. paragraph 43). The French export
trade in rubber goods is predominantly a trade in tyres (c.f. para-
graph 67). The markets for other rubber goods are mostly in the
countries of Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The United
Kingdom is the chief. In 1927 the exports to that market con-
sisted of rubber footwear (829 tons), belting and mechanicals
(486 tons), waterproofed clothing (84 tons), of elastic and elastic
issues (60 tons).
XIV.—SUMMARY OF THE FOREGOING ANALYSIS OF
EXFORT TRADES.
71. This closes our analysis of the export trades of the chief
countries competing in the international trade in rubber goods.
Although the manufacture of tyres overshadows all other branches
of the rubber industry, yet the foregoing analysis brings out the
movement of the large tyre firms to establish their own factories
in different countries and also the manner in which the inter-
national trade in other forms of rubber goods is developing. Rubber