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Boniato Road, Santiago di Cuba. 



AUTOMOBILE MARKETS IN CUBA 



The West Indies absorb nearly a third of the total automobile exports from the 

 United States to Latin America, and Cuba, our best Latin American customer, lakes 

 84 per cent, of tins West Indian trade. Large returns from sugar have mad.' the 

 Cuban planters prosperous, and they purchase not only motor trucks for use on 

 their estates, but the highest-priced passenger cars for pleasure driving. From the 

 fiscal year 1913 to 1918 the value of our exports of meter vehicles and parts to Cuba 

 multiplied 20 times. 



UNITED STATES EXPORTS OF MOTOR VEHICLES TO CUBA. 

 The increase in the number and value of our exports of automobiles and parts 

 and motorcycles to Cuba is shown in the following record of these shipments in a 

 pre-war year, in two full years of the war, and in the 9-month fiscal period from 

 July 1, 1918, to March 31, 1919: 



Years < ik1<<1 June 30 — 9 months < ndt d 



Articles. L913 1917 1918 Mar. 31, 1919. 



Number. Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. Number. Value. 

 Automobiles : , ' 



Commercial 14 $23,639 397 $722,519 554 $1,130,982 456 $888,636 



Passenger ...22:5 242,686 3,529 2,545.071 2,!»75 3,<.C9.si:; 1.:!2<S 1,955,579 



Engines 5 718 2 439 13 3,726 6 2,805 



Tires .. 32,822 .... 1,019,915 .... 1,336,233 .... 1,492,271 



p ar t s 35,928 .... 906,710 .... 1,028,276 .... 1,012,805 



Motorcycles 4:: 8,285 7:'. 15,076 165 36,408 7. 19,718 



Total values 323,578 .... 5,209,730 .... 6,565,438 .... 5,371,814 



