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DECLARED EXPORTS TO THE UNITED STATES 

 The following tables show tho details of the declared exports from the ports of 

 Clenfuogos, Caiharien, and Sagua la Grande to the Unittxl States during the calendar 

 years 1917 and 1918 : 



Articles. 



1917 1918 



Quantity. Valiip. Quantity. Value. 



CIENFl'EGOS. 



Bepswax, pounds 1,86.3 S782 



Carhonatr. pounds 247.1(10 ti.176 



Hide.s, pounds : 8,.-,.?.S 1,880 • ■ • • i ;A 



Honev pounds ^>.2\r> 11,520 166,568 $39,150 



Mola-i'cs callons' 42,279.689 2.021,104 41,898,086 1.973.402 



Sugar, pounds . ..' 415,947.200 17.989.662 379,393.683 14.501,648 



All other artieies 2,784 



• Total 20,03.3,908 16,514,200 



CAIBARIEX. 



Asphalt, pounds 937,220 8.665 



Beeswax, pounds 49,629 22,.339 



Honey. Kallons 26.029 25.7.5S 8,861 15,748 



Hides, pound.s lilKI 240 



Lumber (cedar), superficial feet 23(i,2!ti; 17..506 199.637 17,055 



Molas.ses. gallons 199,91)3 13.315 1,383,090 88,186 



Plantains, bunches 17,.")n() 219 



Sugar, pounds 506,289,600 16,732,927 3.53,613,120 16,354.684 



Total 16.820,969 16,475,673 



SAGUA LA GR.\NDE. 



Alcohol, gallons 131,839 105,471 57,785 37,992 



Flesh from hide, pounds 18,256 633 



Furniture 240 



Hide-s. pounds 393.273 5S..590 25,709 5,142 



Molasses, gallons 3,9.53. 7.S(i 234,670 4,691,514 311,531 



Sugar, pounds ". 454,429,120 18,464,-354 382,471,385 17,561,419 



Tobacco, pounds ' 18.880 100 



Total 18.863,958 17.916,184 



These figures do not include shipments from the ports of Trinidad and Tunas de 

 Zaza. Exports to the United States amounted to 61 per cent, of the total exports 

 from the Cienfuegos district in 191S, or 10 per cent, less than the percentage shipped 

 to this country in 1017. No invoices were certified from any of the ports in this con- 

 sular district for shipments to Porto Rico, Hawaii, or the Philippines. 



DESTINATION OF EXPORTS FROM CIENFUEGOS 

 Larger shipments to Europe explain in part the decrease in the expoits to the 

 United States. The destinations of the exports from the port of Cienfuegos alone in 

 191G, 1917, and 191S appear in the following table : 



Country. 1916 1917 1918 



United States S22,023,693 $19,553,076 $16,352,159 



France 3,06.5,228 641,040 173,752 



Italy 643,346 



England 8,418.289 18,424,064 20.097.388 



Canada 311,745 



Total . . 33.507.210 39,261,532 36,935,044 



SUGAR THE PRINCIPAL ARTICLE OF EXPORT 

 To Europe, as to the United States, the chief export from Cuba is sugar. The 

 entire island of Cuba directs its attention to this staple of commerce. It is the 

 barometer of trade, inasmuch as conditions, favorable or otherwise, are the result 

 of the movement of sugar in conjimction with attendant details governing production. 

 With prices good, wages reaching a high record mark, and other essentials equally 

 favorable, there has l»een an era of prosperity in Cuba never before so general and 

 continuous. There is a doubt, however, whether after the shipment of the 1919 crop, 

 high prices can be continued, in view of the competition due to a resumption of pro- 

 duction in countries which during the war were not in the world market. The price 



