The Archive · 1938

Five-Year Quotas

ne following are the quot figures now recommended for the years t0%9, HHO, 1941, 1942 and 1943, The Straits Settlements, Federated Malay States, "URNS, ant Brunel 622,000, 042,500, 648,000, 681,000 ana, 51,500" tons. The Netherlands East Indies: 691,500, 040,000, 045,500, 050, 00 ana 651,000' tons. Ceyton: 106,000, 107,600, 109,000 109.500 and 110,000 tons, "India: 17,800, 17,750, 17,750, 27.180 and 17,750" tons. Burma: '13,- 500, 19,750, 13,780, 13,780. and 13,750 tons, Norih Borneo: "21,000 tons for each year, Sarawak: 43,000, 43,780 and 44,009 tons in later years, Siam: 54,500, 55,200, $5,700, 56,000 and 60,000 ton These final recommendations must accepted or rejected by signatory Governments. within tree" months.

The next meeting har been provisionally fixed for: May" 31, when the ota for the third quarier of 1098 stil be fixed Reuter Japanese Rubber Dealer Pails London, Mar. 31.

The rubber market received a fuirthor shock this morning at the report the failure "of a. big. Japanese dealer in Singapore, Spot rubber fell Sd. per pound, but priges. subsequently rallied partially Phe extent of the failure ix esti rated &t £36000, while the amount St rubber Involved is believed to. be S00 tons.

Some rubber traders believe that the tonnage involved. in the failure has already been absorbed in. Sin-Dare, as there is no evidence, at pres-fent, of any abnormal offerings from that quarter—Reuter

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