THE CUB A R E V I E \V 



TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER 

 COUNTRIES WITH CUBA 



Trade of the United States with Cuba in the year just ended aggregated 108 million 

 •dollars, having more than doubled during the reciprocity period. The exports to 

 the island, according to the hgures of the Bureau of Statistics, Department of Commerce 

 and Labor, were about 62 million dollars in value, having trebled under reciprocity, 

 and imports from the island were 106 million dollars in value, haying doubled during 

 the reciprocity period. The reciprocity agreement with Cuba went into effect December 

 27, 190.3. the exports from the United States to that island in that year having been 

 2'sVi> millions dollars, against 62 million in I'.ill. and the inii)orts therefrom olVi million 

 dollars, against 106 million in 1911. 



UNITED STATES IMPORTS FROM CUBA 



The increase in imports from Cuba during the decade has occurred chiefly in 

 sugar and leaf tobacco, though in the case of sugar a shortage in the crop of last year 

 caused a material decline in the imports when compared with the immediately preceding 

 year. In 1910, sugar from Cuba totaled 3,673 million pounds with a value of over 

 100 million dollars: in 1911, about 3,192 million pounds, valued at a little over 70 million 

 dollars: in 1903. just prior to the reciprocity period, the total was 1,994 million pounds, 

 valued at 37 ^2 million dollars. Leaf toliacco other than that used for cigar wrappers 

 shows a steady growth, from 10 million dollars in 19():i to 12 2-.3 million in 1910, and 

 16 million in 1911. Of cigars, cigarettes, etc., a total of 4% million dollars' value was 

 imported in 1911. against a little less than 4 million in 1907. Imports of Cuban iron 

 ore have doubled since 1903. the total for that year having been l^-.' million dollars, 

 compared with 3 million in the year just ended. Bananas, cabinet wood, pineapples, 

 molasses and copper ore are the items next in importance, with importations ranging 

 from one million down to a half million dollars annually. 



UNITED STATES EXPORTS TO CUBA 



On the export side, the United States trade with Culia covers a much larger range 

 of articles, chiefly manufactures and various food products, such as flour and other 

 breadstuffs, meats, lard and lard compounds, eggs, and coffee. Iron and steel manu- 

 factures head the list, having grown from 2V2 million dollars in 1903 to S million in 

 1907, and approximately 12 million in the year just ended. Under this head are included 

 locomotives and other machinery, wire, pipes and httings, steel rails, builders' hardware, 

 and numerous other articles. Boots and shoes have sextupled in value of exports 

 since 1903, having risen from one-half million dollars' value in that year to 3% million 

 in 1911. Of passenger and freight cars the exports are also increasing, having prac- 

 tically doubled in live years. In 1903 our exports of cotton cloths to Cuba were but 

 little more than a quarter million dollars, while last year they were valued at 1 2-3 

 million. Of lard the exports to Cuba have increased from 1^2 to 4 million dollars 

 in the period 1903-1911: of flour, from 2 to 4 million dollars: of corn, from 2-3 million 

 to 1''l> milHon dollars; of vegetables, from a half million to 1 ^-j million dollars; pickled 

 or salted pork, from one-quarter to three-quarter million dollars; and bituminous coal, 

 from 1% to 2% million dollars. The foregoing are but representative of the growth 

 which has occurred in many other articles, such as milk, chemicals and medicines, 

 fertilizers, furniture, paper manufactures, mineral oil, and scientific instruments, the 

 exports of which in 1903 had not. in some cases, attained sufficient importance to 

 warrant their separate enumeration in the ^Monthly Summary by the Bureau of Statistics. 



Xot only is the United States increasing its trade with Cuba, but it is supplying a 

 larger share of the commerce of that island than ever before. In the calendar year 

 1910, according to the official figures of that island, the United States supplied .52.5 

 per cent of the imports, compared with 43.8 per cent in 1900, and 41.4 per cent in 1903, 

 the year immediately preceding reciprocity: and of the exports from Cuba in 1910 

 85.8 per cent were sent to the United States, as against 68 per cent in 1900, and 77.9 

 per cent in 1903. 



SHARE OF LEADING COUNTRIES 



'Meantime both Spain and the United Kingdom have lost in the share which they 

 supply of the imports into Cuba, and are also taking a smaller share of the exports 

 from that island. Of the total imports into Cuba, the share of the United Kingdom 

 was, in 1900, 15.7 per cent, in 1903, 16.1 per cent, in 1910, 11.9 per cent: Spain, in 1900, 



