The crops for the pre-war seasons 1912-15 and post-war seasons 1919-22, 

 have been as follows : 



Cuban Sugar Crops 



(Thousand Tons) 

 Season Crop Season Crop 



1912-13 2,429 1919-20 3,730 



1913-14 2,598 1920-21 3,936 



1914-15 2,593 1921-22 (Estimate) 4,000 



Today Cuba is the world's greatest sugar producer. The estimated 

 crop for the present season will be approximately 1,500,000 tons greater 

 than that of British India and more than double that of Java, the next largest 

 producer. The present crop is nearly three times the German beet sugar 

 crop of the season 1921-22. This pre-eminence of Cuba as a producer of nearly 

 one-fourth of the world's sugar, has been in part due to the natural advantages 

 of climate, soil and location, but full credit must also be given to the individ- 

 uals both Cuban and American whose business sagacity and genius have 

 directed this wonderful development. 



Normally more than three-fourths of the exports of sugar 

 from Cuba are to the United States. In pre-war years only a 

 small fraction of the Cuban crop found its way to other countries, 

 but the necessities of European consumers on account of the decline of the beet 

 industry have led to increased exports in recent years to the United Kingdom 

 and other European countries. The United States is a great natural 

 market for Cuban sugars and Cuba has the further advantage of prefer- 

 ential tariff treatment. 



Cuba and the Tariff 



Under the terms of the reciprocity treaty between the United States and 

 Cuba, approved by Congress December 17, 1903, imports of Cuban products 

 into the United States are assessed tariff duties 20% less than those imposed 

 upon like products of other foreign countries. The treaty also provides for a 

 reciprocal reduction of 20% to 40% on products of the United States imported 

 into Cuba. Cuban sugar has therefore a 20% tariff preference in the United 

 States market as compared with other foreign sugars, and products of the 

 United States have a similar preference in Cuban markets as compared with 

 like products of other nations. Since the present duty on 96 raw sugar is 

 2.206 cents per pound, Cuban sugar pays a duty under this reciprocity pro- 

 vision of 1.7648 cents per pound or .4412 cents less than sugars from foreign 

 countries. Whether our tariff is revised downward or upward, as long as 

 this treaty remains in force, Cuba will have this 20% advantage as compared 

 with other foreign countries. 



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