30 THECUBAREVIEW 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



SUGAR CROPS COMPARED 



Figures of the Production, Exportation and Local Consumption of the Three Last Crops. 



1912 1913 1914 



Exportniion Bags Bags Bags 



Habana 1,101,702 1,192,057 1,247,086 



Matanzas 2,435,191 2,878,944 2,953,441 



Cardenas 1,522,644 2,267,066 1,876,330 



Cienfuegos 1,922,941 2,413,307 2,228,998 



Sagua 769,509 1,377,107 1,125,662 



Caibarien 827,887 1,071,924 1,027,748 



Guantanamo 573,971 581,974 693,232 



Cuba 114,951 154,627 201,501 



Manxanillo 564,289 682,683 760,381 



Santa Cruz del Sur 214,462 256,940 291,018 



Nuevitas 203,732 257,169 383,959 



Antilla 385,080 644,200 907,458 



Nipe Bay 267,974 426,393 492,500 



Jucaro 373,955 618,442 1,020,074 



Gibara y Puerto Padre 1,303,160 1,447,625 1,886,077 



Manat'i 134,696 



Zaza 22,000 24,000 24,676 



Trinidad 81,424 81,382 80,249 



Total Bags 12,684,872 16,376,240 17,335,086 



Total Tons 1,812,125 2,343,413 2,509,972 



Local Consumption (tons 83,859 85,124 87,760 



Total tons received 1,895,984 2,428,537 2,597,732 



Figures of Messrs. Gumd, and Mejer. 



CUBAN SUGAR SEEKS MARKET IN 

 THE ORIENT 



TREND OF SUGAR PRICES The two new centrals in Oriente Province 



Tj ] 1 . r- -n. 1 nr.i.1 /-I -1 "America" and "Borghita" calculate on a 



Under date of December 26th, Czarmkow- ^-^^^ f^^. ^^eir first season of 21,600 and 65,- 



Rionda Company commentmg upon the situ- qoO bags respectively, 

 ation irom the sellers viewpomt, says: 



"In view of a large foreign demand for — ■ — ■ 



granulated, in addition to the business already 

 done for export, and calculating upon only a 

 normal consumption in this coimtry, meltings 

 during the early months of the" new year The value of the 1912-13 sugar export was 

 should considerably exceed those of the corres- .$111,000,000, or 67 per cent of that of all the 

 ponding period of 1914, when impending exports. The United States took .$100,000,000 

 tariff changes were responsible for a decrease. worth, the United Kingdom $9,800,000, Can- 

 It is, therefore, to be expected that absorp- ada $979,000, France $514,000 and Holland 

 tion of the Cuban crop will go on at a greater $204,000. The quantitv of sugar exported 

 pace than lastwinter and thereby prevent the was 2,181,000 tons. 



selling pressure that usually accompanies any The opening of the Panama canal is ex- 

 early accumulation of stock in the island. In pected to enable Cuban sugar to compete 

 these circumstances a price of 2.94c c. i. f . for with the product of Java in the markets of 

 January shipment Cubas, equal to 3.95c duty Asia. The Cuban planters are also consider- 

 paid, does not appear at all unreasonable, es- ing the advisability of following the example 

 pecially when it is recalled that, by reason of of Java in taking up the manufacture of white 

 the higher duty then in force, 2.94c c. f. this plantation sugar in order to become inde- 

 time a year ago represented a landed cost of pendent of the sugar refiners of the United 

 4.30c per pound, basis 96 degrees. States. 



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