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THE CUBA REVIEW 



It is interesting to note from our Cuban advices that the labor troubles have now 

 been settled and that the sugar making campaign is now in a normal trend. This is 

 particularly noticeable in our cable giving the Cuban figures for the week ending 

 March 22nd, which reported arrivals at the shipping ports of 179,594 tons, this being 

 the high record for any one week in our memory. 



The Equalization Board has fixed a price for molasses sugar, basis 89°, from 

 Cuba at 4.84c c. & f. or 5.715c duty paid, for Porto Ricos 6.04c c. i. f. and for non- 

 preferential 4.64c c. i. f. or 5.715c duty paid at the Port of New York. The prices for 

 these grades of sugar at other United States Atlantic and Gulf Ports will vary from 

 the above prices to the same extent that the prices for Centrifugal Sugar at these 

 ports vary from the New York prices for Centrifugals. Allowances for test deviation 

 on Porto Rican and duty paid Molasses sugars are as follows: .07c per lb. per degree to 

 be added for each degree above 89°; or .12c per lb. per degree to be deducted for each 

 degree below 89° down to 84°; on sugars testing under 84° allowance is to be at the 

 rate of .17c per lb. per degree for each degree down from 84°; fractions in proportion. 

 On Cuban and Non-Preferential Molasses sugars sold on a c. & f. or c. i. f. basis 

 allowances for test deviation are to be as follows : .05c per lb. per degree to be added 

 for each above 89°; or .10c per lb. per degree to be deducted for each degree down 

 from 89° to 84°; on sugars testing below 84° allowance to be at the rate of .15c per lb. 

 per degree for each degree down from 84°; fractions in proportion. 



We are in receipt of official statistics from France giving the imports and exports 

 of sugar for the entire year 1918, the former totalling 203,731 tons, against 577,730 

 tons in 1917 and 582,819 tons in 1916. Exports amounted to 100,122 tons in 1918, 

 against 158,715 tons and 166,933 tons in 1917 and 1916 respectively. The price of 

 White sugars (No. 3) has been established by the Government at 99 francs per 100 

 kilos or 8.67c per lb. Advices from Spain quote first grade refined sugars in Barce- 

 lona at 172 Pesetas per 100 kilos or about 15c per lb. 



In Sweden the price of sugar is being maintained at 1.32 crowns per kilo whole- 

 sale, which figures approximately 16c per lb., with a retail price of approximately 18c 

 per lb. The price of beet roots has been established at 8 to 8.50 crown per 100 kilos; 

 this price figures approximately $19 to $20.25 per ton respectively. 



The final outturn of the 1918-19 Domestic Beet Crop has not yet been published 

 by us, but undoubtedly same will be in the neighborhood of 680,000 tons or practically 

 the same as the 1917-18 outturn. The final geographical distribution by states of the 

 1917-18 crop which has just come to hand, and which may be of interest to your 

 readers is appended herewith. 



FINAL GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION.— (By States) of 1917-1918 Beet 

 Sugar in Bags Sold from Beginning of Season to January 31, 1919. 



FROM FACTORIES IN 



