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THE CUBA REVIEW 



PLANTATION CARS ""' ^"^ '^''^^^ ^^° 



THE PARTS FOR SAME 



No. 902-K (Palabra de clave ZOVZU) 



El grabado enseiia uno de nuestros carros para cana con jaula de madera. Se puede 

 convertir en cari'o plataforma por medio de remover los costados y extremos. 



Tenemos otros tipos de capacidades varias y hemos fabricado un gran numero de 

 carros para cana para uso en Cuba, Puerto-Rico, America-Central y Mexico, que tienen 

 jaulas de acero o de madera y construidas para los distintos tipos de carga y descarga 

 de la cana. 



AMERICAN CAR & FOUNDRY EXPORT CO., NEW YORK, E. U. A. 



Direccion telegraflca: CAREX, New- York, E. U. A. 



Produccion annual de mas de 100,000 carros 



Representante para Cuba: OSCAR R. CINTAS Oficios 29-31, Havana 



SUGAR REVIEW 



NO IMPROVEMENT LOOKED FOR RATES OF DUTY NOW IN FORCE 



DISCOUNT INTERFERES WITH FOREIGN TREATIES 



Our last review for this magazine was dated September 15, 1913. 



At that date the quotation for 96° test Cuba Centrifugals was 3.76c. per lb. and is 

 now 3.42c. per lb. duty paid. 



On the cost and freight basis it was then 2 13/32c. per lb. (3.76c. duty paid) and is 

 now 2 1/16C. per lb. c & f (3.42c. per lb. duty paid). 



As anticipated in our last review, 2 7/16c. per lb. c & f and 3.80c. per lb. duty paid 

 have proved to be the high level of the fall season. 



Without coming nearer at 3.80c. than 26c. per 100 lbs. to the European parity, the 

 market has rather rapidly declined during the month under review to 3.42c. per lb. which 

 is 68c. per 100 lbs. below European parity. Such a course to the market during the late 

 months of the year has been unknown in any previous year, when the usual coiirse of our 

 market has been to rise to the parity of Europe before making its decline in anticipation 

 of the new crops of Cuba and the domestic cane and beet crops. 



The abundance of the local supplies, the desire to turn the domestic crops into cash 

 before reduced duties come into operation, both of which cause unusual competition 

 between the cane and beet interests, are mainly responsible for these changed conditions 

 at this early period. 



It seems useless to anticipate any improvement from present conditions for some 

 months to come, or until operations under the new tariff are the basis of the market. 



The new tariff is completed and signed by the President, and is now the law of the 

 land. In operation to-day it applies as follows : 1st. The Dutch Standard No. 16 being 

 now eliminated raws of 96 deg. test from Cuba pay 1.348)c. per lb. duty; 97 deg. test 

 1.376c. per lb. duty; 98 deg. test 1.404c. per lb. duty; 99deg. test 1.432c. duty; 100 deg. 



