Heinl radio business letter (July-Dec 1941)

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8/15/41 PHILIPS ACTIVITIES NOTED IN ARCENTINA The great increase in shipments of radio sets and acces* series from Argentina in 1940 is believed, according to the Indust¬ rial Reference Service of the U. S. Department of Commerce, to be due largely to the activities of the Philips Company (the Nether¬ lands), which is now reported to be supplying South American markets from its Argentine plant. Radio tubes are not classified separately in Argentine export shipments; therefore it is difficult to estimate the number of tubes exported to Brazil and other markets which receive a large proportion of Argentina's exports of radio sets. The local trade believes that a large part of the reported exports comprise radio sets, including the necessary tubes; although separate shipments of tubes have also been made. The exTDorts of the leading countries of radio rei from Argentina were: 1939 1940 Brazil ^10,509 ^288,690 Chile 226 159,480 Uruguay 2,302 30,879 Peru 164 28,113 Bolivia 3,437 21, 906 Paraguay 5,339 14,627 Netherlands West Indies 447 11,662 Other 3,753 10,428 The total radio set 0 X]p 0 G were S26 , 207 $565,785 Argentina is one of the leading foreign markets for United States radio materials. While the value of such exports decreased in 1939 from those of 1938, the figures for 1940 are slightly higher, with a combined value of ^1,306,827. Competition is active in all phases of the Argentine radio market. The Argentine industry is now well established, and the majority of the receiving sets, chassis, cabinets, loudspeakers, transmitting equipment and various other components and accessories are now made within the country. A large number of receiving sets are still sold under their original United States brands, but most of them now rely on the domestic industry for at least a part of their components and accessories, and few are still assembled from 100 percent United States parts. Another feature of the radio market is the large number of sets which are assembled and sold by amateurs (including those assembled in small factories as well as in homes) and dealers. It has been estimated that this non-factory output in past years amount¬ ed to almost half of the total niimber of sets sold annually. Aside 5