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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Headings in exports returns. Difficulties in making compari- s0LS, A table attached to this note compares the headings in the export returns of the principal exporting countries. The unit of quantity recorded under each heading in the returns of the various countries is also given. Certain characteristics of the rubber manufacturing industry very greatly enhance the difficulties of analysing the trade statistics. The chief of these difficulties are :— L. The extraordinary variety of goods made of rubber or in which rubber forms an important or essential part. An official report recently issued in the United Kingdom states: ‘‘ Few industries use a wider range of raw materials or manufacture products put to more diverse uses than the rubber industry.”* As, in the trade returns of all the manufacturing countries, this wide variety of articles is classified under a comparatively few headings, it is very difficult, and in many cases, impossible, to know whether the same kinds of goods are included under similar headings. Instances of this difficulty are: — Rubber Footwear—whether rubber soles and heels are included— whether the trade is predominantly one in light canvas shoes or heavy waders or wellingtons. Hard Rubber or ebonite goods—whether these are included under the articles of which they form an important part but not the whole, such as surgical rubber. goods, or whether—as in the German returns— they have a separate heading. In the latter case one cannot be sure that these do not include other kinds of rubber or other materials which form a part of the article classified as of * hard rubber.” 2. Even in so-called rubber goods *“ other ’’ materials frequently form 30 large a part of the value that comparisons may be very misleading. Examples :— Cotton fabric forms about half the value of motor ear outer tyres. Cotton or other fabric enters into the manufacture of many rubber articles, such as clothing, elastic goods, rubber boots and shoes. Rubber is only a fractional part of the weight (or value) of insulated wires and cables. Variations in the weight or value of these incorporated materials may make great differences in the weight or value of goods classified as ‘* rubber manufactures ’’ without giving any indication of the quantity or the value of the rubber used in their manufacture 3. It is mecessary—when considering figures of exports——to bear in mind the relative importance of the different branches of the rubber manu- facturing industry in different countries. Thus, : in. comparing the exports of the United States and Germany, it should be borne in mind that rubber manufactures other than tyres formed 14 per cent, (in 1927) of the rubber goods exported from the United States and 78 per cent. of those exported from Germany. Changes in the exports of these goods from Germany will therefore reflect very much greater variations in the state of the rubber industry as a whole in Germany than thev will in the case of the United States. 5, Since tyres form. usually a very great proportion of the rubber manufactures of the principal producing countries, the total trade in rubber manufactures as well as that in tyres will depend very greatly * Report for 1927-8 of the Department of Scientific snd Industrial Research, page 142.

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