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:: VIII. Motor tyre industry

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ow in comparison with those of another country in which that rade 1s not so important. Favourable buying of raw Tubber. {nterpre- tation of national statistics. Chief manu- facturing qounntries. 30. Values of exports may further vary considerably from time 'o time according to the state of internal competition in the ex- yorting country and also if the manufacturers of the country have been able to buy rubber at favourable prices. The price of raw rubber has fluctuated considerably in recent years, and, as manu- ‘acturers buy rubber ahead of their requirements to the extent of 50 to 70 per cent. it can happen that a firm may have obtained ts raw material at a relatively low price. Rubber at 1s. a pound represents about 40 per cent. of the works cost. 31. Conclusions regarding the progress of an industry in a par- dicular country drawn from a mere comparison of the trade statistics of exports and imports for two or three years may there- ‘ore be vitiated by all or some of these causes. None the less, she survey of national statistics over a period of years furnishes ery important information regarding the capacity of the import- ng markets, the indications of their growth and strength and ‘he nature of the competition therein. It is these aspects of the statistics which we stress in the paragraphs we devote to a survey >f the rubber tyre industry. 32. Concurrently with a great expansion in the production of yres in countries already manufacturing those goods before the War, the number of countries in which they are now manufactured has also increased. Motor tyres are now manufactured in 20 ountries namely :— In the British Empire : United Kingdom, Canada, Australia. South Africa and British Malaya. In foreign countries : United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan, Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Hungary, Den- mark. Sweden, Russia. the Netherlands, Spain. and Mexico. Of these countries only eight enter seriously into competition in nternational trade. They are the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, France, Italy, Belgium, Japan and Germany. Australia practically reached, in 1927, a stage of self-sufficiency in iyre manufacture. The general picture is therefore one of fairly -apidly growing world demand, which is gradually being satisfied nore and more in many countries by increasing local production, sut still leaving a large surplus demand unsatisfied, for which at oresent eight countries chiefly compete, but for which more may ~omnete in the future. [rter- national rade in outer ~OVOTS. 33. The shares of these eight countries in each branch of the tyre trade cannot be shown statistically owing to differences in classifica- tion in their returns of export trade. France until recently, Italy, Belgium and Japan, for instance, make no distinction between outer

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