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Show II ARGENTINE IN NEED OF TIRES Growing Market in South American for U. S. Product WASHINGTON. Oct. 14. "Co aftT the Argentine market." This Is the advice Imparted In em-, phatle language by the department of commerce to the American tiro manufacturer. manu-facturer. A report on the Argentine ttre market mar-ket which Trade Commissioner f.eorRe S. Brady has sent to secretary Hoover' says In part : "Tha! there is a larre ftnd growing market In Argentina for Am- rieaS Automobile Au-tomobile tires Is evidenced by the in- reaninr sales of American cars tn Dint country'- Althouifh Imports of during the year 921, when conditions ware bai tn the. agricultural ami cat-tie cat-tie Industries, sal 'M have now been re-turned, re-turned, especially for the lower-prlcea i Mrs. Interest tn the good roads movement Is also general. The total of cars In the republic r an I stlnnte.l fri,ni the offl. lal tm- port Statistics and the sales rocoi Is on tbe cars entering Into the country knocked du-vn, whb li do not figure In the import statistics. Since I9vi the Imports have ranged from nln In that year to 27.312 In l?2n when Im-portatlons Im-portatlons reached the peak, in 1921 the number -f earn Imported was S.- H "Imports for 1!IS. 19U., 1S20 and iff Include ...T4i. n.374 and .086 cars, respectively, Imported I knocked down and classed as parts Thes figures were taken from sales records of the importer. The Kuro-peaa Kuro-peaa cars that were Import' d about l$lt are practically all still In service as taxis In Huenos Aires. For purposes pur-poses of estimation, however tf ni l be assumed that nil cars brought In prior to 1112 ha e, hern definite. y scrapped. Then assuming that 50 per e.-nt of the cars Imported from 1912 to 1917 are out of commission and that 10 per cent of those Imported be-j tween 1917 and 1927 have boon scrapped, the result will show 7 . 3 4 7 j cars still In use, on December 31. LIZ 1.1 "Imports of cars for the first si months of 1922 totaled 2 290. To this should be added not less than .". 000 knocked-down small cars Imported is. parts during this period, making B to- ' tal of 7.290 Carl Imported during the first half of 1922 "The estimate, therefore, shows a. total of 77,637 automobiles In service I in Argentina, on june n, ini flgurn Includes trucks, as the Argentine Argen-tine customs statistics Included trucks with passenger ears prior to 1924). The number of trucks tn Argentina Is small and will not reach more than 1 per cent of the total. Official registration regis-tration In the city of Buenos Aire, shows over 1 300 "automobiles for rar-go.' rar-go.' but these are mostly automobile chassis with truck and delivery' bodies. As most of these cars were Imported after 1916. and as It is known thai cars are not scrapped so quickly In Argentina as In the United States, aj very conservative estimate of the total j number of cars now running In that, republic ts 75.000." nn |