RUBBER SUPPLIES
According to the latest bulletin of the Internationl Rubber Committee the estates are well able to supply tho full quantities released under the 80 per cent, quota for the first half of the year. Exports from the producing countries in the first five months of the year exceeded absorption by nearly 86,000 tons, compared with a deficit of over 77,000 tons during Janu-ary-May, 1939. when the quota was 50 per cent, of a smaller standard. Increasing supplies of rubber are being rapidly dispatched to the United States, which in June imported 53,900 tons, against the revised figure oi 51,400 tons in May. Moreover, 119,100 tons were in transit in July, compared with 109,400 tons in the month before. United States stocks at the end of June amounted to 168,200 tons, against 161,400 tons at the end of May.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 10
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140RUBBER SUPPLIES Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 53, 30 August 1940, Page 10
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