28 THECUBAREVIEW 



SUGAR PRODUCTION 



The receipts of sugar into the United States amounted to 7,472,728,906 pounds, vakied 

 at 1347,674,625 in the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, against 7,620,085,068 pounds, valued at 

 $308,986,793 in 1916, the high record year, and 6,822,825,102 pounds, valued at $155,077,126, 

 in 1914. While the quantity received in 1917 shows an increase of 9J^% over 1914, the value 

 increased 124%. 



Of the total arrivals of sugar in 1917, 5,332,745,854 pounds, valued at $230,945,694, 

 came from foreign countries; 1,162,605,056 pounds, -"-alued at $62,741,164, from Hawaii, and 

 ^77,377,996 pounds, valued at $53,987,767 from Porto Rico. Of the five and one-third bil- 

 lion pounds imported in 1917 from foreign countries, 4,669,097,398 pounds came from Cuba, 

 114,367,301 pounds from the Dominican Republic, 158,107,460 pounds from South American 

 •countries, 267,891,954 pounds from the Philippine Islands, 26,406,776 pounds from our recently 

 purchased territory of the Virgin Islands, formerly Danish West Indies, 21,885,000 pounds 

 from Japan, and lesser amounts from other countries. 



Increases Jrom Virgin Islands and Jap'in. 



The imports from the Virgin Islands and Japan show remarkable increases when compared 

 with previous years. There were no imports of sugar from the Virgin Islands in 1916, and the 

 total imports from these islands in the five fiscal years, 1912-1916, amounted to 25,912,546 

 pounds, one-half million pounds less than the quantity for 1917. In 1916 the imports of sagar 

 from Japan were 6,410 pounds and only 26,410 pounds for the five years 1912-1916, against 

 21,885,000 poimds in 1917. The imports of sugar from the Dutch East Indies, which amounted 

 to 3143/^ million pounds in 1912, fell to 21,813 pounds in 1917. The imports of beet sugar 

 for 1917 were only 28,847 pounds. 



The production of sugar in the United States for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1917, 

 is estimated at 2,267,251,840 pounds, of which 621,799,360 pounds were cane and 1,645,452,480 

 pounds beet sugar. This production, with the imports from foreign countries and receipts 

 from non-contiguous territories, would make the sugar available in the markets of the United 

 States amount to 9,739,980,746 pounds. Of this anount, 1,248,840,336 pounds, valued at 

 $77,096,608, were exported as domestic refined sugar; 5,711,344 pounds, valued at $284,875, 

 were reexports of sugar in the condition in which imported; and the shipments to noncontig- 

 uous territories amounted to 19,329,532 pounds, valued at $1,439,741. 



Amount Retained in the United States. 



Deducting the shipments from the receipts and production would show 8,466,099,534 

 pounds as retained in the United States, an average of 81 pounds per capita, against 7,960,- 

 362,762 pounds, an average of 78 pounds per capita in 1916, and 8,793,794,928 pounds, an 

 avergae of 89 pounds per capita in 1914. 



The average price of imported sugar in 1914 was 2.01 cents per pound; in 1915, 3.2 cents 

 per pound; in 1916, 3.8 cents per pound; and in 1917, 4.5 cents per pound, an increase of 112% 

 in three years. The average price of sugar from Hawaii was 3 cents in 1914 and 5.4 cents in 

 1917; from Porto Rico the average price was 3.1 cents in 1914 and 5.5 cents in 1917. Refined 

 sugar exported averaged 3.6 per pound in 1914 against 6.2 cents in 1917. 



SUGAR SUPPLY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM 



Before the war over 4,000,000 hundredweight (of 112 pounds each) of unrefined and about 

 9,000,000 hundredweight of refined sugar were imported annually into the United Kingdom 

 from Germany and Austria-Hungary, and one of the chief problems of food supply in this 

 country has been the rearrangement of sugar imports so as to make up this deficiency. 



In this connection the following article and statistics appeared in a recent supplement 

 of the London Chamber of Commerce Journal: 



The following tables show the changes which have taken place in the sugar import trade 

 during the period of the war. The quantity derived from imperial sources has increased, not 



