[In thousands of pounds] ----+-------------+----------+----------+--------------- Year|Production[1]|Imports[2]|Exports[3]| Apparent | | | |consumption[4] ----+-------------+----------+----------+--------------- 1918| 106,794| 285| 6,478| ([5]) 1919| 1,544| 5| 1,244| ([5]) 1923| 3,311| 372| 233| 3,450 1925| 14,734| 919| ([6]) | ([7]) 1926| 8,691| 220| ([6]) | ([7]) 1927| 8,041| 1| ([6]) | ([7]) 1928| 10,227| 2| ([6]) | ([7]) 1929| 24,178| 433| ([6]) | ([7]) 1930| 21,147| 1| ([6]) | ([7]) 1931| 17,981| 2| ([6]) | ([7]) 1932| 13,965| | ([6]) | ([7]) 1933| 33,220| 3| ([6]) | ([7]) 1934| 44,935| | 2,623| 42,312 1935| 43,419| 3| 2,922| 40,500 1936| 48,724| 71| 1,258| 47,537 1937| 65,690| 32| ([6]) | ([7]) ----+-------------+----------+----------+--------------- [1] From table 59. [2] From tables 62 and 63. [3] From tables 64 and 65. [4] Production plus imports minus exports. [5] Not calculated because of importance of stocks on hand. [6] Not available. [7] Not available because of absence of export figures. Exports probably negligible up to 1929; substantial in 1933. The manufacture of synthetic phenol was revived about 1923. Imports were quite small as compared with production, especially after 1927. At first this was probably due primarily to the protection given by the duty which had been increased in 1922.[22] But with the increase in volume of production in the United States the price decreased and since 1933 the United States producers have enjoyed a substantial export business. It may therefore be doubted that in recent years there would have been any substantial imports even if phenol had been free of duty. THE CRESOLS, XYLENOLS, AND CRESYLIC ACID