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EXPORTS OF ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS, BY STATES 



Of the ten chief products mentioned in the first table coffee 

 occupies easily the first place, sugar the second place and cotton came 

 third in 1920. The U.S.A. are by far the best customer of Brazil, 

 the major (juantity of imports being coffee. France occupies now the 

 second place and Great Britain the third. The State of Sao Paulo 

 leads, of course, as regards exports, due chiefly to the coffee exports ; 

 the same applies to the second, Rio de Janeiro. Bahia comes third 

 in consequence of cocoa exports, hides, etc. Pernambuco, from which 

 State most of the cotton is exported was only fourth in importance 

 during 1920. The falling off in rubber exports is clearly visible from 

 tlie first table and from the third. 



Sugar is the second produce of importance as an export com- 

 modity. At one time Brazil was a great sugar-cane country, but the 

 yields per acre cannot compete with Java, the Sandwich Islands, etc., 

 as will be seen from the folio v.ing particulars : — 



The expansion of the beet sugar industry and the carelessness on 

 the part of the Brazilian cultivators are the main causes why Brazil 

 receded from the position of the first and most important world 

 supplier of sugar to the sixth place. The beet sugar industry supplies 

 to-day 6J- million tons more sugar than the cane industry, whose total 

 world's production is calculated at 5| millions. 



