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Balance tonnage required to move Royal 

 Commission portion 514,788 



Note: About 200,000 ions more Raws will be diverted to United States to be re- 

 filled for account of the Royal Commission not yet allocated to refiners, which will in- 

 crease the balance of tonnage required for the United States to 1,355,804 tons and de- 

 crease balance required for Europe to 314,788 tons. 



June 23, 1919. (Compiled by Cuban Allotment Committee.) 



Domestic cane sugar crop in Louisiana has recently shown a little improvement 

 owing to a spell of dry weather. The planters have taken advantage of the oppor- 

 tunity to at least partially clean their fields. The heavy rains had made the cane 

 grow rapidly and were it not for the fact that grass and weeds have also grown, the 

 rains would not come in for the general condemnation visited upon them. 



Estimates of the 1919-20 domestic beet production have been issued in some 

 sections, indicating a crop of nearly 900,000 long tons of sugar. While we have 

 no1 yet issued our own estimate of the crop, it being still too early to give an ac- 

 curate figure, we are inclined to believe that this estimate is entirely too high, par- 

 ticularly in view of the fact that conditions have shown no improvement in Cali- 

 fornia, and, also, that estimates in Colorado are now being scaled down, owing to a 

 considerable period of dry weather which, at this time, is unfavorable for best growth. 



According to our advices from Java, the exports during the month of May were 

 widely distributed, Holland receiving 7,000 tons, England 9,000 tons, France 6,000 

 tons, Italy 3,000 tons, Sweden 2,000 tons, Vancouver 3,000 tons and Port Said for 

 orders (probably Europe) 2,000 tons. Exports to eastern countries total 45.000 tons 

 Total shipments for the month 77,000 tons, against 135,570 tons in May, 1918, and 

 56,533 tons in May, 1917. Weather conditions in Java have been unfavorable recently 

 and a start of harvesting is delayed about two weeks, these conditions causing a 

 strong market in Java. June shipment White sugars are quoted at the equivalent of 

 8.28c per lb. f. o. b. Java, a remarkable advance when it is taken into consideration 

 that at about this time a year ago Java sugars were quoted at the equivalent of l%c 

 per lb. f. o. b. Java. 



Our regular monthly cable from the Philippines gives exports during May of 

 1,000 tons to New York, 5,000 tons to San Francisco and 10,000 tons to other coun- 

 tries, including 1,750 tons to England. There is a stock of these sugars at the Atlan- 

 tic Ports already amounting to 4,000 tons and there are now afloat and about due 

 at New York a further 2,500 tons of these sugars, part of which are unsold. Total 

 exports to the United States since January 1 are approximately 33,000 Ions. 



In connection with our European advices, we have received from Prag in Czecho- 

 slovakia, the following figures, which are given as official, covering the outturn of 

 sugar in Germany for the first four years of the war in tons, raw sugar value: 



1917-18 1916-17 1915-16 1914-15 



Crop outturn 1,541,061 1.557,930 1,515,316 2,510,102 



Imports 10,623 8,512 26.223 23,724 



Exports 14,471 10,700 39,447 163,075 



Consumption 1,569,926 1.398,945 1,854.706 2,281,821 



The exports and imports were divided as follows : 



Imports : 



Refined 8,029 3,105 3,043 14,153 



Raw 1,591 5,019 22,S00 7.S24 



Exports : 



Refined 9.329 9,165 18,894 118.922 



Raw 3,976 381 18,191 29,2S8 



