TIRE PRODUCTION/TIRE DEMAND

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP83-00423R000600340001-7
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: December 3, 1998
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 4, 1953
• Content Type: REPORT

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S !' Ty INFORM
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COUNTRY: Cuba
SUBJECT: Tire Production/Tire Demand
PLACE, 4CQUIRED :
DATE ACQUIRED :
DATE OF INFO : May 53
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about equ II v ded. among passenger and truck sizes. High produc
costs due to the small volume and low tariff on imported tires crea
a bad position for the plant. Also, the sales tax of 7.2 per cent
dealers' price assessed on locally made tires is higher than the to
of 9 per cent of landed cost paid on imported tires.
2. The normal consumption of tires is about 250,000 annually, the great
bulk of which must be imported. -?j
3. Truck tire business is currently off about 30 per cent due to the
uncertainty of the sugar harvest.
1. Labor laws require that help hired must be kept for a year and cane
growers are reluctant to hire additional help for the harvest. Growers
have tractors and cane carts with large, soft tires, but are reluctant
to hire the help needed only temporarily to harvest the crop and are
turning to the rental of trucks. Consequently, the cane carts that
normally offer a seasonal demand for tires are idle.
SOURCE
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4 June 1953
Approved For Release 1999/09/10 : CIA-RDP83-00423R000600340001-7