A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

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Identifikator:: 1848834152

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-240944

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: A survey of the trade in rubber manufactured goods

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: His Majesty's Stationery Office

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: 119 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: III. Characteristics of the rubber industry

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3 COBE £ the ‘ering oA a We ong— soles rade then yeen sber. wires mn of :d In —its oned alls, the dus- 3 for tele- bber ther the a» of dent ries 3a to ‘hen hich aver 20st ket per she rion ant. Jtor rld ign and tor ng position in the iyre industry of the world. In the years 1925 to 1926, 54 per cent. of the crude rubber used industrially in the world was utilised in the manufacture of tyres in the United States. In those years, United States industries used, in the nanufacture of all kinds of rubber goods twice as much crude rubber as the industries of fhe rest of the world. 11. The tyre section stands apart from most of the other sections of the industry in other particulars than in the quantity of rubber it absorbs. It is on the whole a modern development of the trade and requires large scale units for economical production. It lemands a widespread sales organisation in which the trade is sufficiently large to permit of specialisation. The number of firms sompeting for world trade are comparatively few in number. Many of these own branch factories or have working arrangements with factories in countries other than those in which the parent com- pany is domiciled. The British Goodrich Company was estab- lished in England in May, 1924, and during 1927 and 1928 several ovhier foreign manufacturers such as Michelin, Firestone, Goodyear, Pirelli and others have established factories in the United Kingdom for producing their own tyres. Similarly the Dunlop Tyre Company of Great Britain has branch factories or is in association with linked factories in the United States, Germany, France, Australia, Canada and Japan. These world-wide associations do not seeur to a similar degree among manufacturers making other forms of rubber goods. 12. Trade statistics of imports and exports do not reveal changes mn policy on the part of the large firms of international character, who in their turn are more interested in the progress and develop- ments of their competitors than in the totals of imports and exports of different countries. A change in policy of any one of these arge firms may affect very notably the import or export trade figures of any given country in a particular year. A case in point has occmrred recently in the United Kingdom, As will be seer later in this report the average annual value of syres and tubes imported into the United Kingdom in the four years 1924 to 1927 was £3,450,000. In 1928, due mainly to the opening n the United Kingdom of factories owned or controlled by foreign firms, recorded imports fell to less than £1,000,000. Even if, in order ‘0 avoid any overstatement of the effect on imports caused by this change of policy on the part of these foreign firms, it be assumed ihat all imported cars were landed with a full new equipment of tyres (which is not the case), and that these were omitted ‘rom the recorded imports of tyres, the total imports of tyres could not exceed £14 millions as compared with an average of nearly £3% millions in the preceding years. Conversely a change in policy of these large firms as a result of which they should close their ocal factories in the United Kingdom might lead to another expan- Special zharac- teristics of the tyre industrv. Effects of dolicy of larce firms.

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