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covers and inner tubes and only record totals of weight exported 
and not numbers of tyres and tubes. 
The United States Commerce Department, however, publish 
3 table showing for all these eight countries the number of outer 
sovers exported by each of them. This table furnishes the nearest 
approach to a comparative statement available. The compilers of 
this table have not made allowance for the fact that since the 
(9th April, 1927, the returns of the United Kingdom exclude tyres 
sxported with complete vehicles, chassis or wheels. The figures 
given for the United Kingdom in 1927 and 1928 in the table 
which is reproduced below have therefore been increased by the 
satimated number of outer covers so exported :— 
Motor Vehicle Outer Covers exported from the Principal 
Producing Countries. 
(Thousands of covers.) 
From | 1019. | 1021. | 1923. 
1924. | 1925. 
1026. | 1997. | 1928. 
United Kingdom 
Canada es 
United States... 
France* ee 
Ltaly ... ee 
Belgium _ 
Japan} ver 
Germany ver 
484 
185 
000 
855 
213 
44 
55 
25 
163 
119 
840 
079 
227 
90 
397 
480 
,363 
510 
130 
— 
350 
500 
-,389 
677 
567 
|& 
Tv 
872 
848 
S170 
872 
301 
VAS 
904 
1.152 
654 
902 
720 
193 
+38 
200 
983 
1,679 
2,811 
2,112 
726 
208 
ox 
1,047 
1,675 
2,603 
1 812 
7441 
447 
202+ 
180 
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Total ... 
21761 
9 ~02 
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6.872 
3.096 
8.000 
+ Estimated from weight on the basis of one outer cover to 13 kilogs. of total 
sxports of tyres and tubes. 
+ Estimated on the basis of eleven months returns. 
+ Estimated from weight. 
This table shows :— 
(a) the rapid growth of the export trade during the last 
sight years, in spite of increased local manufacture ; 
(b) the phenomenal development of Canadian and French 
sxports ; 
(c) the great advance made by the United Kingdom after 
he disastrous slump of 1921; 
(d) the great increase in Belgian exports which are rapidly 
bringing that country into the group of principal exporting 
rountries * 
(e) the exceptional exports from the United States in 1927 
nd 19928.