32 THECUBAREVIEW 



SIX YEARS OF TRADE WITH CUBA 



United States Imports from Cuba 



1911 1912 1913 1914 



Value Value Value Value 



Bananas $772,313 $961,948 



Cattle, hides and skins $379,636 $627,544 425,336 1,526,788 



Copper ore 620,522 729,525 741,917 2,123,174 



Iron ore 4,864,186 2,288,102 



Sugarcane 76,226,966 106,414,904 93,850,298 115,517,902 



Tobacco— leaf 91,593 186,305 207,826 196,399 



Tobacco— all other 15,818,867 15,767,120 14,523,310 14,509,847 



Total imports for each year.. $106,098,026 $137,890,C04 $125,093,740 $146,844,576 $197,548,146 $243,728,770 



United States Exports to Cuba 



1911 



Value 



Agricul.imple., and parts of. . $254,411 



Automobile tires 



Books, maps, etc 259,888 



Boards, joints, etc 2,288,005 



Boots and shoes 3,297,704 



Bacon 556,588 



Com 1,402,792 



Cars— passenger and freight. . . 1,603,821 



Cotton cloth 1,657,757 



Coal— bituminous 2,776,619 



Furniture 752,867 



Hams and shoulders — cured . . 638,311 



Iron & steel pipes and fittings.. 1,237,047 



Iron and steel sheets and plates. 



Iron and steel, structural 802,685 



Leather— glazed kid 47,878 



Lard 3,974,656 



Lard compounds & substitutes. 1,542,264 



Locomotives — steam 291,918 



Oil-cottonseed 182,008 



Oil— crude 374,298 



Oil— illuminating 54,439 



Oil— lubricating and heavy . . 395,454 



Pork— pickled 806,512 



Printing paper 129,265 



Rosin 



Sewing machines 338,017 



Typewriter machines 101,721 



Tin plates, terneplates, etc 119,681 



Wheat flour 3,981,049 



Wagons 



Wire 560,931 



Total exports for each year $62,280,509 $65,228,061 $73,238,834 $67,877,382 $95,750,004 $164,622,950 



In coiiiiection with the statistics of the United States trade with Cuba, it i.s interesting to 

 note the charts shown on the opposite page, which are reproduced from a chart issued by 

 the Pan-American Union. The upper chart shows the exports from the United States to Latin 

 America for 1916, totaling §497,155,369, of which the exports to Cuba amounted to $164,622,- 

 950. The chart in the lower part of the page shows the United States imports from Latin 

 America for 1916, totaling $823,578,723, of which the imports from Cuba amounted to $243,- 

 728,770. These charts empha.«ize the importance of the trade with Cuba. 



