a Norway, Austria, Japan, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Denmark and Australia. Year. Total Exports of Wachinery Belting. Exports of Rubber Belting. Percentage. 1920 ee 1921 ce 1922 po 1923 vrs 924 ve 1925 un L926 ws 1997*% 1.000 cwts. M5 1.000 cwts. 24. 35.6 33.8 34.0 37.2 37.3 40.6 40.7 49 9 RR 231 253 239 241 “Ro 32 36 v7 37 I8 IR * Fstimated from slichtly incomplete figures. Tr xX % {8 of 9 0) J » nl Vv £ 43. Nearly 80 per cent. of the rubber and balata belting entering nternational trade is exported by the four countries, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Germany, of which the United States is the chief exporter and the United Kingdom the second. However, as the following table shows, the exports from the United Kingdom of this form of belting for which the demand is steadily increasing, did not, up to 1927, expand as rapidly as those from anv of the chief competing countries. Bxports of Rubber and Balata Belting Quantity—cwts. 1924. "0925 026. 19927. 1098 Chief Countries oxporting helting. 10 a af il 1t \ United Kingdom United States ... (Germanv ae Danada pv 23,744 | 21 ROO 25,724 23,889 36,400 | 37,200 6426 | 6.643 Fiscal Year ended 31st March. 1925. 1926. | 1927. 1.665 11,176 9,632 22,670 14,600 - R.878 Calendar Year. 10.951 28,268 13,636 18.411 10.940 aN iN 18 Ag Pe 1