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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Corner of Cuban Exhibit at the National Foreign Trade Council, Cincinnati, Ohio. 



CUBA'S FOREIGN TRADE IN 1918 



One important result of the convention of 

 the National P'oreign Trade Council, held in 

 Cincinnati in April is seen in the increased 

 interest which big business men from all 

 parts of the United States displayed in trade 

 with Latin-America. Exhibits at the Coun- 

 cil by the Cuban Government and the Pan- 

 American Union served to emphasize as 

 never before the rich opportunities for 

 American manufacturers and exporters in a 

 market which, prior to the war, was deemed 

 a profitable field for Germany and the Ger- 

 mans. The Cuban Government exhibit, 

 which attracted wide attention, was located 

 at the headquarters of the Council. Statis- 

 tics compiled by J. V. Knight and Giafton 

 W. Borgman Cuban Counsul here, who were 

 in charge of the exhibit, showed that last 

 year Cuba's trade with the United States 

 alone was nearly $450,000,000, and that her 

 e.xports and imports with other countries 



totaled nearly a quarter of a billion dollars 

 more. "What Cuba has achieved, despite 

 her small area and population in divorcing 

 herself from German trade influences, every 

 other Latin-American nation can do," said 

 Consul Borgman. "Cuba's trade with the 

 United States is greater by far than that of 

 such large Latin- American nations as Argen- 

 tina, Brazil and Chile. From reports which 

 we have received from Havana, we believe- 

 that the 1918 volume of Cuba's foreign trade 

 will be close to $700,000,000." 



PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED 



''The Inlernalioncl Movement of Fertilizers 

 and Chemical Products Usfful to Agriculture 

 During the First Six Montis of 1917." — Pub- 

 lished by the International Institute of Agri- 

 culture, Rome. 



Bulletin No. 241, issued by the Walter A. 

 Zelnicker Supply Co., St. Louis, Mo., lasting 

 rails, cars and locomotives. 



