EHE CUBA “REV LEW 33 
The Sugar Industry 
U. S. Sugar Trade 
Slight increases in both imports of 
sugar into the United States and exports 
of refined sugar from the country were 
recorded in April, as compared with 
March, according to the figures of the 
Customs division of the Treasury. 
Imports for the month totalled 420,- 
584 ordinary tons, against 418,981 tons 
in March, while refined exports totalled 
14,585 tons, against 12,799 tons the 
month previous. Imports thus main- 
tained the larger volume which charac- 
terized the March movement, as com- 
pared with that of the several months 
preceding, and exports showed a partial 
recovery from the low March level. 
The slight increase in import figures 
for the month was due entirely to heavier 
arrivals of full duty sugars, particularly 
Santo Domingos, as imports of Cuban and 
Philippine sugars fell off as compared 
with the preceding month. Cubas de- 
creased from 383,981 tons in March to 
374,540 tons, while there were no arrivals 
from the Philippines in April, against 
8,029 tons in March. Full duty arrivals, 
on the other hand, increased from 26,971 
tons in March, to 46,044 tons in April, 
Santo Domingo sugars contributing 9,403 
tons of the increase and other full duty 
sugars 9,670 tons. 
With the April returns, import figures 
are available for the first four months 
of 1921. They show receipts from all 
foreign sources of 1,264,624 ordinary 
tons, which is approximately comparable 
to the imports during the corresponding 
period of 1919, but is less by some 238,000 
tons than imports in the first four months 
of last year. Imports of Cuban sugars 
for the first third of the present year, 
1,136,894 tons, are a little smaller than in 
1919 and about 213,000 tons less than in 
1920. Full duty imports this year are a 
somewhat larger proportion of total im- 
ports than in either 1919 or 1920, for the 
same period. 
The following table gives the import 
totals for April and for the first four 
months of 1921 and previous years, in 
tons of 2,000 pounds: 
Year April Four months 
TO 2D Ss Be so oes oh, BAO OE 1,264,624 
NOON aah ee ee OO EE DS 1,502,633 
1QUQRE: Jota he COTS 1,246,489 
LOTS Ree eee OMS5 1,018,673 
LON ern eee: 4. fem OOD 1,148,616 
LAG eee eee | OS S00 1,159,662 
The respective quantities of Cuban 
full duty and duty free sugars imported 
in the first four months of this and the 
two previous years are as follows, in 
tons of 2,000 pounds: 
1921 1920 1919 
Cuban..... 1,136,844 1,349,972 1,154,136 
Full duty... 118,085 146,905 63,246 
Duty free. . 9,695 5,756 29,107 
Total.... 1,264,624 1,502,633 1,246,489 
The 18,504 tons of full duty sugars 
imported in April from other countries 
than San Domingo came in small quan- 
tities from Central and South America 
for the most part, with Peru supplying 
the largest amount. Imports from Java 
reached the negligible total of nineteen 
tons. 
The following are the figures of full 
duty imports by countries in greater de- 
tail, for April and for the first four months 
of the year, in tons of 2,000 pounds: 
From April Four months 
San Domingo........ 27,540 59,151 
EVAR ee rth ace ee 1,777 3,307 
IMGxT COR eerie toe 1,780 8,953 
Central America... .. 6,235 9,718 
RET Siena 3,674 8,399 
Other South America. 2,125 4,700 
British West Indies.. 1,028 1,058 
Dutch West Indies... 1,601 3,083 
Dutch East Indies... 19 17,027 
iFongkon gee 30 460 
anada. 235 301 
Ofhercountriessy gee re 
Motale alate ca SAG OAL 118,085 
The distribution of the 1921 imports 
by customs district of receipt has been 
in ordinary tons: 
Recewed at April Four months 
INeweYorkast- apse 161,014 559,192 
Philadelphia... ..--.. 119,365 306,499 
BOstOn pen cni. see see ain 35,683 105,485 
Savannaheeees ese land O 30,571 
New Orleans. .-..... 61,426 187,257 
