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selting is supplanting other forms of belting, the miscellaneous 
list of rubber articles exported is increasing and the trade in several 
articles on this list is growing. Although 75 per cent. of the rubber 
absorbed in industry is used in the manufacture of tyres, exports 
of tyres in 1928 from seven of the leading manufacturing countries 
formed by value only 56 per cent. of the total exports of rubber 
manufactures from those countries. The percentage varied greatly 
from country to country, being very high for Italy, Belgium and 
France and very low for Germany. In the United Kingdom and 
the United States exports, tyres form somewhat less and somewhat 
more respectively than half the total exports of rubber goods. The 
percentages are as follows :— 
United Kingdom ... 45 
Canada es ies 65 
United States  ... 53 
Germany ... . 21 
Per cent. 
Per cent. 
France es .. 78 
Ttaly .. ve 88 
Belgium  ... ... 87 
72. We show in summary form the countries from which the 
-hief importing countries of the Empire obtained, in 1928. the 
rubber goods they imported. 
Imports of 
Empire 
countries. 
Imported from 
Commodity. 
mported into 
Total 
[mports. 
United 
Kingdom 
Canada| 
United 
States. |France. | 
Ttaly. 
Germany. 
United King- 
dom. 
Canada vee 
Australia* ... 
South Africa... | 
New Zealand 
[ndiat ee 
United King- 
dom. 
Canada ee 
Australia* ... 
South Africa... 
New Zealand 
ndiat 
£000. 
Tyres 
£000. 
IR0« 8 
£000. 
187-5 
£000. 
195-8 
£000. | 
Q1.8 
£000 | 
99.6 
£000. 
072.6 
1-3 
224-4 
356-4 
234-3 
502.9 
150-6 
324-6 
596-8 
289-6 
RRO. 4. 
65-1 
150-1 
268-2 
78-1 
404-0 
|DTRR 
1-4 
138-6 
32-9 
114-3 
222 1 
r 
113-6 
37:4 
4-2 
79:6 
17-2 
0-9 
2:1 | 
3-2 
60-0 
625-1 
67-9 
1,082-6 
1,067.1 
1,045-6 
2,703-3 
3,631.7 
Other rubber 
nanufactures 
121-9 
323-8 
138-2 
81-1 
41-3 
11-8 
209-5 
399-2 
303-2 
75-8 . 
48-2 0-3, — 
"details not available). 
0-8 
0:1 
22-0 753-4 
53-6 767-8 
5:6 2365-8 
3-8 374-6 
a 
2. 
‘8 
8 
9 
*¥ Fiscal year ended 30th June, 1929. 
} Fiscal year ended 31st March, 1929. 
Greater details are given in Appendix IV, Table D, pp. 107-118.