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Show RUBBER BUSINESS, SUPPLY AND DEMAND The attitude of the United States Tire company with regard io the situation situ-ation created by the government's regulations of emde rubber importation importa-tion is set iorth in the following letter let-ter by that company to the trade: "As there have been many rumors recently, of varying nature, regarding the effect on tho production and supply sup-ply of tires, due to the government regulation reg-ulation of crude rubber importation, and policies adopted by some people in tbe trade, which do not seem to reflect the true situation, we will give herein some facts, as we see them, which wo believe will be acceptable to dea lers "In order to conserve boat tonnage for military requirement, the govern-1 ment has restricted the importation of crude rubber, the present order in effect ef-fect to cover a period of three months at which time further consideration ol the matter will be given covering another an-other period. "The rubber on hand in this country coun-try now, together with that en route, is sufficient to take care of normal requirements, re-quirements, covering the first period of restriction, ami if the trade and public will refuse to become "panick" due to all sorts of rumors, and refrain from over-buying or boarding, it is the best belief of this company that unless un-less some unforeseen eircumstances arise, n will be entirely possible for the tire production of this country to take cart of the needs ol the trade and publie for the present year. "Adequate stocks to take care of all requirements should be carried by dealers, but there is no reason existing at this time for loading up beyond nor-mal nor-mal requirements, either because of an Immediate possible shortage, or for any reason that we can now foresee. This is a time when the capacity of the tire manufacturer should be used to make sizes and styles which aro going to be required by dealers within a reasonable period of time, and we would caution our customers to place orders for their requirements well in advance in order that we may shape our production to what will actually be required, instead of using our materials, ma-terials, labor and capacity to a certain extent In making sizes and styles which would necessarily have to be carried on hand for an unreasonable period of time." 00 |