Table 15.-New York Outside Market Prices for Wild Rubber, Year-End 1930 and 1937

Table 16.-Prices (Index Numbers) of Plantation Rubber at Singapore Rubber

NOTE.-All prices used were lowest obtained on particular auction for each grade.

Source: Singapore Chamber of Commerce Rubber Association.

Table 17.-Wholesale Prices of Rubber at New York, Composite Index Number, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1913-37

Table 18.-Monthly Declared Unit Value of United States Rubber Imports, 1920–37

UNITED STATES IMPORTS AND REEXPORTS

United States imports of rubber in 1937 amounted to 600,476 long tons, valued at $248,266,584 or 18.46 cents a pound, compared with imports in 1900 of 22,026 tons, valued at $28,577,789 or 57.92 cents a pound-an increase of 2,626 percent in volume and 768 percent in value. While these figures strikingly illustrate the tremendous growth of the rubber-manufacturing industry in the United States, it will be remembered that this growth was parallel to that of the automobile-manufacturing industry, whose product is dependent upon rubber tires for its mobility.

Reexports of rubber from the United States since 1900 have been. made largely to Canada. This trade reached its peak in 1929, since which time there has been a sharp decline in quantity. Owing to the "Empire content" requirement in Canadian production to meet the requirements of preferential tariff treatment, Canadian rubber manufacturers have since 1936 been importing the greater portion of their rubber directly from British Malaya, in British bottoms, and through Empire ports. As a result of this requirement, 80 percent of all rubber imported by the Canadian industry is of Empire origin. In 1936 there was a large exportation of imported rubber to Italy, amounting to 44 percent of the entire trade. Increased rubbermanufacturing activity in Mexico and other South American countries may be noted in our increased reexports to such destinations. Table 19.-United States Gross Imports of Rubber (Including Latex and Guayule), 1900-1937

Table 19.-United States Gross Imports of Rubber (Including Latex and Guayule), 1900-1937-Continued

Table 20.-United States Imports of Rubber, by Principal Sources, 1900–1937

Total..

100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0

Table 21.-United States Imports of Rubber, by Principal Customs Districts, 1900-1937