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jadores tienen todos los que necesitan para sus requerimientos. Con un poco mas de 50 
por ciento de sus trabajadores en las labores de la remolacha compuesto de mexicanos y 
unos cuantos Japoneses, rusos y americanos, nos dicen haber podido conseguir mds traba- 
jadores americanos de lo que pudieron conseguir durante varios afos. Sin embargo, 
estos no dan tan buen resultado como los mexicanos, japoneses 0 rusos, y no hardn esta 
clase de trabajo si pueden conseguir un trabajo distinto. En Wyoming el tiempo durante 
el invierno fué seco y la primavera no fué ideal en modo alguno, pero sin embargo la re- 
molacha empezé bien. En Montana y en Washington las siembras y el rendimiento 
son por bajo de lo normal. En California, donde se ha empezado ahora a hacer azicar, 
aunque el tiempo fué algo seco en la primavera, segtin informes recibidos todo es satis- 
factorio en la mayor parte de los casos, con abundancia de trabajadores. 
Nueva York, Julio 21, 1921. 
The Permanent Tariff Bill 
The Permanent Tariff Bill was intro- 
duced into the House of Representatives 
by Chairman Fordney of the Ways and 
Means Committee. The rates on sugar 
are the same as in the Emergency Tariff 
Law now in effect. A paragraph was 
added permitting Continental U. 8S. Man- 
ufacturers to import foreign raws for re- 
fining at a concession of 25% from the full 
duty rates. The text of the Bill reads as 
follows: 
SCHEDULE 5.—SuGaAR, MonassEs, AND 
MANUFACTURERS OF 
Par. 501.—Suears, tank bottoms, sirups of 
cane juice, melada, concentrated melada, con- 
crete and concentrated molasses, testing by 
the polariscope not above seventy-five sugar 
degrees, and all mixtures containing sugar and 
water, testing by the polariscope about fifty 
sugar degrees and not above seventy-five 
sugar degrees, 1 16/100 cents per pound, and 
for each additional sugar degree shown by the 
polariscopic test, four one-hundredths of 1 
cent per pound additional, and fractions of a 
degree in proportion. 
Par. 502. Any person manufacturing or 
refining in the United States sugar, testing by 
the polariscope over ninety-nine dezrees, pro- 
duced from beet or cane grown in the conti- 
nental United States, shall for each pound so 
manufactured or refined during any month in 
any State, Territory, or the District of Colum- 
bia, be permitted to import, at any time before 
the exoiration of nine months after the last 
day of such month (for the sole purpose of 
being manufactured or refined by him in such 
State, Territory, or District), two pounds of 
sugar testing by the polariscope not above 
ninety-six degrees, at three-fourths of the rate 
of duty to which such sugar would otherwise 
be subject. The Secretary of the Treasury 
shall make all regulations necessary for the 
enforcement of this para_raph, including the 
taking of bonds to secure compliance with its 
provisions. 
Par. 503. Molasses and sirups testing not 
above 48 per centum total sugars, 1 cent per 
gallon; testing above 48 per centum total 
sugars, two hundred and _ seventy-five one- 
thousandths of 1 cent additional for each per 
centum of total sugars and fractions of a per 
centum in proportion. 
Par. 504. Maple sugar and maple sirup, 
4 cents per pound; dextrose testing not above 
99.7 per centum and dextrose sirup, 11% cents 
per pound. Sugar cane in its natural state, or 
unmanufactured, $1 per ton of two thousand 
pounds; sugar contained in dried sugar cane, 
or In sugar cane in any other than its natural 
state, 75 per centum of the rate of duty applic- 
able to manufactured sugar of like polariscopic 
test. 
Sugar Exports to United States from 
Nuevitas 
The depression in the sugar situation 
in Cuba was quite serious during the first 
half of 1921. Sales and shipments have 
fallen off considerably in volume and prices 
have reached a low mark, approaching 
pre-war figures. Both of the ports of 
Nuevitas—Pastelillo and Puerto Tarafa— 
are stocked to their capacity with sugar 
awaiting shipment. There were 1,371,627 
bags of sugar exported from this district 
during the six months ended June 30, 1921. 
The net weight of this sugar was 445,- 
339,727 pounds, and the value was $20,- 
716,779. During the corresponding period 
of 1920 the shipments to the United States 
201 and having a net weight of 537,947,209 
pounds.—Consul George G. Duffee, 
Nuevitas. 
