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The export returns of Sweden, the Netherlands and Poland show that 
they export small, but increasing, amounts of reclaimed rubber. There is 
no heading for this commodity in the Canadian returns. Germany and 
France export considerable quantities of reclaimed rubber, but details are 
not furnished in the export returns, 
2.~8crap or Waste Rubber. 
Concomitant with the growth of the trade in reclaimed rubber, there has 
grown up a trade in old and disused rubber articles, mostly tyres, shoes, 
belting and hose. The following table shows the growth of the export 
trade in waste and scrap rubber: — 
Markets 
for scrap 
rubber. 
Uses for 
serap 
rubber. 
Country. 
1924, 
1925. | 1926. | 1927. | 1928. 
United Kingdom Pp 4 
Canada “. a - 
South Africa... . ee 
United States ee we 
Germany  ... . vey we 
Netherlands ... oe I. er 
Finland ww wa _— hi 
Sweden vee a cee . 
8,260 
2,753 
36 
21,452 
1,422 
1,289 
170 
480 
house. 
18,298 
14,065 
5,965 
30,951 
2,129 
2,912 
129 
1.190 
8 Ox 
19,221 
14,636 
1,158 
20,843 
7,254 
38,717 
239 
b&O 
21,410 
14,248 
14 
31,332 
4,956 
4,842 
156 
1.0083 
27,490 
16,673 
» 
45,325 
6,988 
7,677 
* 
ES 
Not yet available. 
The chief markets for scrap rubber exported from the United Kingdom, 
Canada and the United States in 1928 were as follows: — 
Figures in brackets are lbs. 000. Chief markets in descending order. 
United Kingdom. 
Canada. 
United States. 
France ... ... (10,298) 
Germany ... (5,002) 
Spain ... veo (4,978) 
United States ... (1,530) 
United States ... (14,629) 
United Kingdom (10) 
Spain ... .. (12,414) 
Germany .. (8,547) 
France ... wee (7,496) 
Canada ... .-.. (5,300) 
Although the bulk of the trade in scrap rubber serves the reclaiming 
plants, a certain amount is used for making up cheap articles. Old solid 
tyres are used for rubber heels and bumpers, and disused inner tubes for 
rubber bands. According to the United States Department of Commerce, 
in several countries, particularly in Mexico and Greece, old motor outer 
covers are used to make a rough kind of footwear, Old covers are imported 
‘into Greece chiefly for making this type of footwear and one outer cover 
provides three pairs of these primitive shoes. 
APPENDIX III. 
Produ ction, 
Note oN THE OFFICIAL STATISTICS RELATING TO THE RUBBER 
MANUFACTURING INDUSTRY. 
Of the chief countries in which rubber is manufactured to a considerable 
extent, only five—the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, the United 
States and Japan—publish official statistics of the production of Rubber