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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aN 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

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