THE CUBA REVIEW 



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SUGAR MACHINERY EXPORT 



The monetary value of sugar mill machinery exported by the United States in 

 1919 was $13,805,940. Statistics of the Department of Commerce do not disclose the 

 exact proportion of this purchased by Cuba, but it is known that by far the larger 

 part of the whole amount went to the Island republic. 



The total volume of trade between the United States and Cuba was slightly over 

 .$097,000,000, by far the largest record for any one year. Of this amount exports to 

 Cuba from the United States were $278,391,222 as compared with $227,156,047 for 

 1918, while imports to the United States from Cuba were valued at $418,610,263, as 

 compared with $278,635,027 in 1918. 



It will be noted that the figures for exports to Cuba in 1919 closely follow those 

 for imports from Cuba the preceding year, and this ratio seems to govern more or 

 less the figures of recent years. If this rule holds good during 1920 Cuba should 

 spend in the United States some $400,000,000 during 1920, and the present movement 

 of trade indicates that this figure is likely to be closely approximated. 



As a matter of curiosity it is interesting to note that Cuba is the largest pur- 

 chaser of American-made shoes of any country in the world, being ahead of all 

 others by a wide margin. 



PRODUCTION AND EXPORTATION OF 

 TOBACCO 



In 1918 and 1919 the production and ex- 

 portation of tobacco in Cuba were as fol- 

 lows : In 1918 the total production was 

 508,989 bales (125,122 bales more than in 

 1917) ; 147,882 bales were of Vuelta 

 Abajo; 27,865 Semi- Vuelta ; 84,590 from 

 Partido; 281 from Matanzas ; 238,885 

 from Remedios ; 3,714 from Camaguey ; 

 and 5,772 from Oriente. The exportation 

 of tobacco for 191S through the port of 

 Havana was 280,097 bales, weighing 11,- 

 753,245 kilos. 



In the period from .lanuary to September, 

 1919, the production amounted to 434,932 

 bales, of which 210,226 were of Vuelta 

 Abajo; 21,196 bales of Semi- Vuelta ; 36,- 

 147 from Partido ; 62 from Matanzas ; 

 163,661 from Remedios ; 1,582 from Cama- 

 guey ; and 2,058 from Oriente. During the 

 same period 2.53,417 bales, weighing 10,- 

 983,733 kilos, were exported through the 

 port of Havana. 



EXPORTS FROM NUEVITAS 

 The declared exports from Nuevitas, 

 Cuba, to the United States more than 

 doubled during the past year as compared 

 with the preceding year, being valued at 

 $15,893,575 and $35,771,780 in 1918 and 

 1919, respectively. The leading item was 

 sugar. 



CONSOLIDATION OF CEMENT COM- 

 PANIES 

 According to newspaper reports there is 

 a consolidation of certain cement com- 

 pania Uruguaya de Cemento Portland, and 

 Texas. The companies consolidated are 

 the Cuban Portland Cement Co., the Inter- 

 national Portland Cement Corp., the Com- 

 paniu Uruguaya de Cemento Portland, and 

 the Texas Portland Cement Co. The or- 

 ganization will be called the International 

 Portland Cement Corporation and will 

 have a capital of $400,000. The corpora- 

 tion will be equipped to produce 3,000,000 

 barrels of cement annually in the follow- 

 ing proportions: 1,500,000 barrels from 

 the Texas Co., 700,000 from Argentina, 

 500,000 from Cuba, and 300,000 from 

 Uruguay. 



CARGO OF PAVING BLOCKS 

 The importation of 7,000 tons of gran- 

 ite blocks from Norway, which arrived 

 recently on the Artemis, will greatly fa- 

 cilitate the work that the Government is 

 doing in improving the streets and roads 

 of Havana. The Government has been 

 very active in this department, and the 

 cargo on the Artemis is the third from 

 the Scandinavian firm, Messrs. N, S. Beer 

 & Co., of Christiana. Other steamers 

 have brought 3,000 tons each in the last 

 month. 



