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    "ocrText": "RUBBER SUPPLY SITUATION IN THE USSR\n1.\nRECENT SOVIET PURCHASES OF NATURAL RUBBER.\na.\nAmounts Purchased.\nThe USSR increased its purchases of imported natural rubber in 1948 to\nabout 129,400 long tons or three times the previous record high of 43,000 tons in 1947.\nThere are unconfirmed reports that substantial additional quantities of rubber are\nbeing smuggled to the USSR from Malaya and perhaps other areas, possibly amounting\nto 50,000-70,000 tons.\nb.\nSources of Purchases.\nThe quantities of natural rubber known to have been shipped, or expected\nto be shipped to the USSR in 1948 (the first two or three months' shipments may have\nbeen purchased in part in late 1947), are as follows:\nMalaya\n103,706\nIndonesia\n5,500\nSiam\n10,030\nUnited Kingdom\n10,200\n129,436\nShipments from the UK were re-exports of Malayan rubber. The bulk\nof the purchases of Malayan rubber was placed through London dealers, but late in\n1948 Netherlands dealers may have placed orders in Singapore, as well as in Indonesia,\nfor USSR account. Some of the Malayan shipments may have originated in Indo-\nnesia which exports much of its output to Singapore because of the lack of adequate\nmilling facilities. Similarly smaller quantities may have originated in Siam. Tech-\nnical payment difficulties in Singapore in the late summer, however, resulted in a\ntemporary cessation of USSR purchases. The payment difficulties, together with the\nalleged inferior quality of some of the Malayan rubber purchased were no doubt factors\nleading to Soviet inquiries for procurement of the material in Indonesia, Ceylon, and\nSiam.\nC.\nDates of Purchase.\nExact dates of the known Soviet rubber purchases are not available, but by\nmid-July 80,000 tons were reported to have been bought for delivery through October.\nThe most reliable information on Soviet takings of rubber directly from Malaya are the\nofficial export statistics of that area, which show the following quantities (latex\nexcluded) by months in 1948:\n3"
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