italy.¥ 9 416) Belgium. ! (1,494) Germany. (1.213) Japan. (572) Ficures in brackets are values in £000. India and Ceylon (221) Spain... 200) Argentina (168) Brazil (144) Belgium ... (144) Dutch East Indies (136) United Kingdom (131) Denmark ... %(115) Australia... (64) Netherlands (270) “rance ... (252) Jermany ... (208) Jnited Kingdom (108) Switzerland ~~ (98) [taly ee (64) Sweden ... (56) Argentina (135) Czecho- Slovakia (121) Dutch East Indies (109) Denmark ... (107) Spain... (102) ‘ndia ... (100) Austria ~~... (81) Netherlands (64) Switzerland (49) British Malaya (44) Jugo-Slavia (44) United Kingdom (43) Hungary ... (40 China... (234) Dutch East Indies (158) Straits Settlements (93) Kwantung Province (47) * The United Kingdom returns do not show exports to each country under all the headings comprising tyres and tubes. Some exports of these goods to the ountries mentioned above may therefore have been included under the omnibus headings “ Other British countries > and * Other foreign countries.” The amounts oy which the above figures fall short of the total in any case are comparatively very small. Calculated from weight. t The annual trade returns of France for 1928 are not yet available. The letails given are taken from the monthly return for December 1928 which gives provisional figures for the whole year. Only a few of the most important markets for tyres are given in this return. In 1927, French exports of tyres to 22 different sountries exceeded £40.000 in value. This table shows :— (a) the very wide distribution of this trade throughout the world. No less than 50 countries appear in this table as being lestinations for tyres to the value of £40,000 in 1928; (b) the importance to the United States of the European and South American markets; (c) the wide distribution of the exports of the United King- Jom, Canada, the United States and France; (d) the great importance of the Empire markets to the Jnited Kingdom and Canada. {(¢) Russia, (U.8.8.R.) is a small market for the chief export- ing countries and is not included in this table.