96 MINERALS YEA~BOO~C
       PRICES

 The total value and the average price received by producers from sales of
lead and zinc pigments and salts are stated earlier in this chapter. The
range of market quotations as reported by the Oil, Paint and Drug Reporter
appear in the following table:

Range of quotations on lead pigments and sine pigments and salts at New York,
193O—3P~, in cents per pound
Product
1930
1931
1932 1
Basic lead sulphate, or sublimed lead, dry, casks           White lead, or
basic lead carbonate:
1)ry, casks                                    In oil, carload lots     
                         
Litharge, American, commercial, powdered, casks          
Red lead, dry, casks                                 
Orange mineral, American, casks                       
Lead acetate, brown, broken, barrels 1                   
Lead arsenate, powdered, drums '                       
Zinc oxide:
Anterlca1i process, lead-fred, bsgs, car lots              
American process, leaded, barrels, car lots             
French process, red seal, bags, car lots                
l'rench process, green seal, bags, car lots              
French process, white seal, barrels, ca~ lots            
Lithopone, American, bags, car lots 
Zinc suiphlde, 500-pound barrels                       
Zinc chloride:
Solution,4 tanks                                 Fused                  
                     
6.75— 7.75
7.25— 8.25
10.69—11.54
7.75— 8.75
8. 75— 9.75
10.75—li. 75
10.50-13.00
13.00—16.00
6.50
6.50
9. 38
10.38
11.63
4. 50— 5.25
16.00—32.00
~
2.25— 8.50
5.78
3.00— 3.50
6.00— 6.75
6.50— 7.25
9.33—10.30
5.75— 7.75
6.75— 8. 75
9.50—10.75
10.00-10.50
10.00—16.00
6.50
6.50
9.38
10. 38
11.63
4. 50
13.00—16.50
2.25- 3.00
5.00—5.75
3.00— 3.50
5.50— 6.00

6.00— 6.50
(2)
5.25- 6.00
6.25— 7.00
& 75—10.75
9.00-10.50
9.50—14.00

8 8.75 —6.50
5.75— 6.50
3 8. 63— 9. 75
3 9.63—10.38
3 10.88—11.63
4. 50
13. 00—13.50

3.00
5,00—5.75
3.00— 3.50
Zinc sulphate, crystals, barrels 1                                     



1 Oo1npiled from woekly reports.
2 Figures not avail8ble.
3 Beginning with June 4, 1932, recorded as 2-ton lots. At works.


 Quotations for white lead and basic lead sulphate were steady up to the
latter part of December, when a decrease of one half cent per pound was announced.
The lead oxides fluctuated more, following the trend of pig-lead prices more
closely. Quotations were maintained at the level of the beginning of the
year until the middle of July, when a drop of one half cent was recorded.
During August three successive rises of one fourth cent each brought quotations
above the opening, but this was followed by a X-cent drop the first of October.
A week later quotations again rose one fourth cent, where they remained until
another h-cent cut was announced the last of December. At the close of the
year oxide quotations were one fourth cent below those at the first of the
year.
 Zinc oxide quotations were reduced three fourths cent per pound below the
year's opening levels about the middle of March and held at these levels
for the rest of the year. Early in June, however, further concessions were
made by reducing the tonnage requirements from carload lots to 2-ton lots.
The quotation for lithopone was maintained at 4.50 cents, but the basis was
changed from carload to 2-ton lots early in June.

FOREIGN TRADE

 The United States continued to have an export balance in its foreign trade
in lead and zinc pigments and salts in 1932. Exports were valued at $974,253
and imports at $592,245, leaving an export balance