The Market of Ammonium Sulphate during the Nineteen-twenties

Abstract

In this article the writer intends to investigate the market of ammonium sulphate during the nineteen-twenties. It has been said up to now that there wad d monopoly during 1920; and that foreign companies and soh-goh shoh-sha made a monopoly of it. But it seems more adequate to be regarded from d different point of view. As there was considerable excess capacity in existence in the world, competition for the market increased in its intensity. The Japanese government, however, did not protect the indigenous makers from the competition in the home market. The competition among foreign companies in Japan-I.G. Farbenindustrie AG, Imperial Chemical Industry, and United States Steel-restricted development of indigenous makers and caused a rapid fall in Price.