Industrial Cuba 12 



EXPORTS 



With Cuba beginning about fifteen years ago, 

 with practically nothing but location, climate and 

 soil as assets, devoid of credit, and unknown to 

 the commercial world, to all intents and pur- 

 poses, her accomplishments, as shown by the 

 following table, must be recognized as evidence 

 of commercial stabiHty: 



Total foreign commerce over $409,704,000.00 



Exports for year ending December 31, 1915 254,292,000.00 



Imports for year ending December 31, 1915 155,448,000.00 



Balance of trade in favor of Cuba 98,844,000.00 



Balance of trade per capita 39-53 



Foreign export of Cuba per capita loi .72 



Foreign imports of Cuba per capita 62.19 



Foreign debt of Cuba per capita 217. 50 



Although Cuba has a larger per capita debt 

 than the United States, her per capita foreign 

 commerce is about 500 per cent higher than that 

 of the United States. 



More merchandise enters and leaves the harbor 

 of Havana than any in the United States except 

 New York. 



Cuba's sugar crop this year exceeds $250,000,- 

 000.00. Her tobacco yield is valued at 

 $24,000,000.00. 



Although the groves are young, citrus fruit, 

 pineapples and vegetables produce $3,500,000.00 

 annually. 



Coffee, cocoa, honey, asphalt, iron, henequen, 

 mahogany, cedar, hides, etc., yield $10,000,000.00. 



Her exports have increased in ten years 140 

 per cent. 



Her imports have increased in ten years 82 

 per cent. 



