BRAZIL. 



71 



COFFEE SHIPMENTS FROM SANTOS. 



Santos coffee being classified as a so-called 

 "mild" coffee i. e., pure-flavored there is 

 more competition for it, and the United 

 States, as the above table exhibits, receive 

 but a moderate proportion of the crop. 



GENERAL COFFEE CONSUMPTION IN LEADING COUNTRIES. 



ian produce has expanded most rapidly at Para, 

 the port of the Amazon River. 



EXPORT OF LEADING PRODUCTS FROM PARA IN 1882. 



To the United States 19,486,737 



Other countries 17,007,529 



TO ALL QUARTERS, 1878-1882 (FIVE YEARS). 



Total increase, 60 per cent. 



Since slavery was abolished in the southern 

 States of the Union, the consumption of Rio 

 coffee, in particular, has increased more rap- 

 idly than ever in the United States, as the 

 negroes prefer this strong coffee to any other. 



Next to Rio, the export movement in Brazil- 



VALUE IN MILREIS. 



COMMERCE OF THE UNITED STATES WITH BRAZIL, FROM 1859 TO 1879, INCLUSIVE, 



SUGAR IMPORTATION FROM BRAZIL INTO THE UNITED 

 STATES THIRTEEN FISCAL YEARS. 



Pounds. 



1876 40,010,416 



1877 74,327,436 



1878 78,076.553 



1879 63,880,355 



1880 152,811,613 



1881 231,453,342 



1870 24,145,331 



1871 21.558,500 



1872 28,378,952 



1873 55,669,036 



1874 86,894,454 



1875 70,878,273 | 



The table below exhibits the amount of cot- 

 ton contributed to the world's supply by Bra- 

 zil, as compared with other producing coun- 

 tries, during half a century, giving the annual 

 average of each quinquennial period, reduced 

 to millions of pounds : 



* Of sixty kilogrammes net. 



