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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 manufacturing
 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
8998 R ?

Characteristics
 of the
industry.