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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBA'S TRADE AND CUSTOMS CHANGES 



COAL IMPORTS 



ITALY S TRADE AND BREMEN S EXPORTATIONS 



IMPORTS OF COTTON GOODS 



COAL EXPORTS TO CUBA 



Bituminous coal exports to Cuba for the 

 first seven months of this year compare 

 with the same period of 1911 as follows: 

 1911 1912 



575,500 tons 646,462 tons 



Coal exports to Cuba via Newport News 

 and Sewalls Poins from January 1st to 

 August 1, 1912, were as follows: 



Cardenas 2,866 



Havana 182,511 



Cienfuegos 21,734 



Santiago 11,125 



Sagua la Grande 8,8S5 



Manzanillo 404 



Santiago 3,601 



Havana 22,670 



Baltimore's exportation of coal to Cuba 

 for the same period was as follows : 



Tons 



January 8,555 



February 17,856 



March 21,913 



April 25,356 



May 20,813 



Tune 24,915 



July 15,000 



August 27,759 



Total 162,167 



Italy's commerce with cuba 



Italy's exports to Cuba for the last three 

 year total as follows : 



1909 2,501,044.82 liras* 



1910 2.720.253.79 " 



1911 2,602,766.77 " 



The epidemic of cholera in Italy during 

 1911 explains the decrease in the exports 

 for that year as compared with 1910. 



*A lira equals a franc. 



BREMEN S IMPORTATIONS FROM CUBA 



The products purchased from Cuba by 

 Bremen's merchants in 1911 included 

 honey, cacao, rum, tobacco, leaf tobacco, 

 drugs and resins, provisions, cotton goods, 

 mahogany, hard woods, cedar, ebony, 

 sponges, wax, cigar boxes, etc. The value 

 of these importations totaled 4,059,144 

 marks. 



Bremen's exportations to Cuba during 

 the same period totaled 11,523,709 marks. 



OUTLET FOR COTTON GOODS 



The consular agent at Havana recently 

 reported that imports of textile manufac- 

 tories for the past year were apportioned 

 among the sources of supply as indicated, 

 using round figures : United States, $2,- 

 325,000, and Great Britain, Germany and 

 Spain, $6,800,000. 



The distance from Charlotte, N. C, to 

 Havana is 1,000 miles. The cotton goods 

 from the United Kingdom, sold in Cuba, 

 were doubtless largely made from Ameri- 

 can cotton transported 3,000 miles to their 

 manufacturing centers and returned as 

 manufactured articles. 



REDUCTION ON FUNERAL WREATHS 



The Cuban government has granted 

 exemption from the surtax imposed by the 

 law of P^ebruary 1, 1904, for certain ma- 

 terials used in the manufacture of funeral 

 wreaths. The reduced rates are as follows: 

 Leaves of zinc. Tariff, No. 74/, $0.15 per 

 kilo; bisque flowers. No. 24, $0.25 per kilo; 

 leaves of tin plate. No. 56, $4 per 100 kilos; 

 and rubber tubes. No. 309b, $0.20 per kilo. 

 These reduced rates are to be extended 

 only to manufacturers upon the presenta- 

 tion of a sworn statement that the materials 

 are to be used in the manufacture of 

 funeral wreaths. (If importation is from 

 the UnTted States, the rates are 25 per cent 

 lower than those indicated, in the case of 

 leaves of tin plate, and 20 per cent lower 

 for the other articles.) 



REGULATIONS FOR PHARMACEUTICAL 

 PREPARATIONS 



A bill to regulate the importation and 

 sale of foreign medicines in Cuba is under 

 consideration. Among the provisions of 

 the bill are the following: Foreign patent 

 medicines may be distributed for sale in 

 Cuba only when the sales representative 

 is a Cuban pharmacist; the label must in- 

 dicate the names and quantities of the 

 component materials to which the prepara- 

 tion owes its medicinal properties; the 

 Cuban Academy of Sciences must be satis- 

 fied that the medicine actually possesses 

 the properties advertised ; and a consular 

 certificate must be produced to the effect 

 that the medicine has been made in labora- 

 tories legally operating in the country of 

 origin. 



Cuba is a great market for patent medi- 

 cines and standard preparations sell readily. 



