85 
A 
18 
d 
8 
Manufactured Goods. The German Statistical Department publishes annually 
particulars relating to the rubber tyre industry only. The following table 
summarises the particulars published regarding the value of the production 
of Rubber Manufactured Goods: — 
Country. 
Year of 
Census. 
Tyres and 
Tubes. 
Other Manu- 
factures. 
Total. 
L&% 
3 
+ 
United Kingdom 
Canada ww 
Australia ... 
United States es . 
Japan... sue we . 
Germany  ... en a. 
1924 
1928 
1927-28 
1927 
1926 
1928 
12 x 
10,382,000 11,087,000 
10,218,000 | 9,764,000 
details not given. 
160,397,763 91,964,198 
1,616,000 4,049,000 
10.050.000 details not! 
L 
21,469,000 
19,982,000 
7,054,848 
252,361,961 
5,665,000 
available. 
Two other countries—France and Italy—manufacture rubber goods to a 
value comparable with those manufactured in the United Kingdom, Canada 
or Germany and Belgian production is comparable with that of Australia 
and Japan, But these countries do not publish any details of production. 
As far as we have been able to ascertain, no details of production are 
published in the other producing countries. 
In the table given above, the output of the United Kingdom includes 
not only the production of the rubber industry proper, but also the value of 
rubber-proofed garments made in the clothing industry and of games and 
toys made in the sports and toy trades. The production of the United 
States and Canada excludes these items. No further information regarding 
the output of Australia and Japan is available. 
STATISTICS OF IMPORT AND EXPORT TRADE. 
The returns of imports provide little comparable data. The countries 
which import rubber manufactures are much more numerous than those 
that export them, and the imports of particular classes of rubber manu- 
factures are, in many cases, so insignificant that they are not given separate 
headings in the import returns. 
As the chief exporting countries are few, the export returns of these 
countries furnish the data for a statistical survey of the international 
trade in rubber manufactured goods. Even in the export returns of these 
few countries, there are so many significant differences of classification 
that a complete comparison of the trade of the various countries is not 
possible. Although there are differences in classification between the export 
returns of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Germany, 
it is possible to make, in many instances, reliable comparisons. The 
classification of rubber manufactured goods adopted by France and Italy 
render impossible any detailed comparisons between their trade and that 
of the other principal exporting countries. 
Import 
returns. 
Export 
returns. 
All the export returns give the value of the exports under each heading. Compari- 
Comparisons based on value, however, may he unreliable, chiefly on account gong: baged 
of the considerable price changes that have occurred in recent years. In on value: 
spite of differences in the methods of recording quantities, some countries based on 
recording numbers and others weight, comparisons of the exports are quantity. 
possihle for the most important classes of rubber manufactured goods.