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selting is supplanting other forms of belting, the miscellaneous
list of rubber articles exported is increasing and the trade in several
articles on this list is growing. Although 75 per cent. of the rubber
absorbed in industry is used in the manufacture of tyres, exports
of tyres in 1928 from seven of the leading manufacturing countries
formed by value only 56 per cent. of the total exports of rubber
manufactures from those countries. The percentage varied greatly
from country to country, being very high for Italy, Belgium and
France and very low for Germany. In the United Kingdom and
the United States exports, tyres form somewhat less and somewhat
more respectively than half the total exports of rubber goods. The
percentages are as follows :—
United Kingdom ... 45
Canada es ies 65
United States ... 53
Germany ... . 21
Per cent.
Per cent.
France es .. 78
Ttaly .. ve 88
Belgium ... ... 87
72. We show in summary form the countries from which the
-hief importing countries of the Empire obtained, in 1928. the
rubber goods they imported.
Imports of
Empire
countries.
Imported from
Commodity.
mported into
Total
[mports.
United
Kingdom
Canada|
United
States. |France. |
Ttaly.
Germany.
United King-
dom.
Canada vee
Australia* ...
South Africa... |
New Zealand
[ndiat ee
United King-
dom.
Canada ee
Australia* ...
South Africa...
New Zealand
ndiat
£000.
Tyres
£000.
IR0« 8
£000.
187-5
£000.
195-8
£000. |
Q1.8
£000 |
99.6
£000.
072.6
1-3
224-4
356-4
234-3
502.9
150-6
324-6
596-8
289-6
RRO. 4.
65-1
150-1
268-2
78-1
404-0
|DTRR
1-4
138-6
32-9
114-3
222 1
r
113-6
37:4
4-2
79:6
17-2
0-9
2:1 |
3-2
60-0
625-1
67-9
1,082-6
1,067.1
1,045-6
2,703-3
3,631.7
Other rubber
nanufactures
121-9
323-8
138-2
81-1
41-3
11-8
209-5
399-2
303-2
75-8 .
48-2 0-3, —
"details not available).
0-8
0:1
22-0 753-4
53-6 767-8
5:6 2365-8
3-8 374-6
a
2.
‘8
8
9
*¥ Fiscal year ended 30th June, 1929.
} Fiscal year ended 31st March, 1929.
Greater details are given in Appendix IV, Table D, pp. 107-118.