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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN COMMERCIAL MATTERS 



UNITED STATES TRADE WITH CUBA 

 About four-tifllis of all the Wost Indian 

 trado of the I'niti'd 8tat«s is ^vitll Cuba. 

 The total trade of Cuba with the United 

 States is nnich frreater than that of any 

 other Latin-American Repul»lie, amount- 

 ing in 1019 to $(jOT,(Xtl,4S,j. or more than 

 oni^quarter of our entire trade with Latin 

 .America. Imports from Cuba amounted 

 to approximately two-thirds of the total 

 trade with the Island, and represented a 

 7a) per cent, increase over the lOlS record, 

 while the growth in exports was 22 per 

 cent. Sugar made up 86 per cent, of the 

 value of the imports from Cuba, this item 

 increasing 33 per cent, in quantity and C2 

 Iier cent, in value. The principal export 

 Increases were in breadstuffs, cotton 

 goods, motor trucks, shoes, and locomo 

 fives. 



The values of the United States im- 

 ports from and exports to Cuba in 10T.», 

 compared with those in 101.9, appear in 

 the following table : 



Imports 



lOlS 1010 



.1:278,035,027 $418,010,203 



E.rjiorfx 



1018 1010 



.*227,1 ."10,047 .i;2TS,:!01 ,222 



PURCHASE OF SADDLE HORSES FROM 

 UNITED STATES 



Senor Jose Fernando Valdes and Senor 

 Jose Ca.stiello Caras of Havana, Cuba, re- 

 cently purchased a carload of the finest 

 saddle horses in Audrian and Callaway 

 comities, the hub of the saddle horse and 

 nuile industry in the United States. They 

 bought 25 walking horses, costing ap- 

 proximately $10,000, and will ship them 

 at once to Cuba. 



In the lot are descendants of some of 

 the finest saddle stallions ever owned in 

 the two counties, several of the horses 

 costing almost $.yi0. The visitors said the 

 horses would be used by foremen of large 

 sugar plantations in Cuba to assist them 

 in properly overseeing the large amount 

 of work under their care. 



SPANISH TOBACCO IMPORTS FROM 



CUBA 

 \U tlie t()l)acc(i that is brought into 

 Spain, excejtt a small amount imported 

 by individuals under the so-called Tarifa 

 <le Regalia, approved by royal order of 

 March 2.3, 1900, is introduced by the Com- 

 Itanla Arrendataria de Tabacos, which at 

 present controls the monopoly of sale and 

 manufacture within the country. Except 

 I'oi' cigars from Cuba and the Philippines, 

 I be import is almost exclusively of leaf 

 (ol)acco for the company's factories. 



The imports from Cuba, by the Com- 

 |)anla Arrendataria, of leaf tobacco for its 

 •factories, and of cigars, in the years 1912- 

 1918, inclusive, and in the first eight 

 months of 1019, were as follows (metric 

 Ion equals 2,204.(! pounds) : 



1912 1913 1914 1915 

 hl)i(lf< of ^fr^ric Metric Metric Metric 

 'roliaeeo I'lms Tons Tons Tons 

 Leaf tobacco.. 734 237 1,003 1,575 



f'ignrs 38 41 84 50 



1919 

 {first 8 

 r.iu; 1017 VMS month s^ 

 Kinds of Metric Metric Metric Mdrii- 

 Tobacco Tons Tons Tons Tons 

 Leaf tobacco. 908 350 ... 2,735 



44 87 ... 58 



Cigars . . . 



MINERAL OIL 

 The following table shows the ship- 

 ments of fuel and gas oil from the United 

 States to Cuba during the pa.st six fiscal 

 years : 



Gallons 



1914 943,777 



191.^. 5,2.39,007 



1010 1,875,034 



1017 2,004,500 



1918 :;.0((7.319 



1919 3,025,008 



The exports of illuminating oil to Cuba 

 for the past six years are shown in the 

 following table : 



Gallons 



1014 1,3.3.5,.302 



1015 172,315 



1010 345,138 



1917 1.028,145 



1918 5,200,771 



1919 2,048,496 



