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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBA COPPER IMPORTS AND EXPORTS FOR THE WEEK ENDED 

 JANUARY 16, 1915 



The imports and exports of copper at the customs districts of New York, Massachusetts, 

 Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, Galveston, New Orleans, San Francisco, Washington and 

 Michigan, during the week ended January 16, 1915, were as follows: 



Impoiis from Cuba— Ore, matte and regains (copper contents) 840,000 pounds— value, 

 $80,000. 



Exports to Cuba — Pigs, ingots, bans, plates, rods, scrap and old, 7,G40 pounds — value, 

 $1,122. 



The following table shows in detail the imports and exports of copper at the customs dis- 

 tricts of New York, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Maryland, Virginia, Galveston, New Orleans, 

 San Francisco, Washington and Michigan during the weeks ended January 23, 1915, and Janu- 

 ary 30, 1915, respectively : 



Ore, viaite and regulus Pigs, ingots, bars, 

 (copper contents) plates, and old, etc. 



Cuban Imports. 

 Cuban Exports. 

 Cuban Exports. 



Pounds 

 1,144,640 

 8,219 

 2,307 



Pounds 

 118080 

 i;202 

 430 



1913 



Imports from Cuba during the month of December $4,552,640 



Imports from Cuba during the 12 months ended with December. $125,093,740 



Exports to Cuba during the month of December 



Exports to Cuba during the 12 months ended with December . 



1913 



$5,882,522 

 $73,238,834 



1914 



$6,940,772 

 $146,844,576 



1914 

 $5,810,326 



$67,881,768 



30 PER CENT OF TOBACCO IS SPOILED, 40 PER 

 CENT DAMAGED 



Sr. Francisco Cruz, of the Department of 

 Agriculture, who has made a tour of the island 

 to report on the agricultural situation, has 

 returned to Havana. With regard to the 

 heavy loss caused to the tobacco growers in 

 the Vuelta Abajo, Sr. Cruz reports that 30 per 

 cent of the crop is entirely ruined, and that 

 another 40 per cent has been seriously dam- 

 aged, the remaining 30 per cent may be saved 

 if the rains cease. He places the money loss 

 in that province at about $500,000. He states 

 that though there is great poverty in that 

 province, the people are not actually starving, 

 as they have a good supply of sweet potatoes 

 and corn. 



Sr. Carlos Armenteros has been appointed 

 minister to the Government of Venezuela, 

 to take the place of the late Sr. Cesar Pinto, 

 who died recently in Caracas. Sr. Armenteros 

 was formerly minister of Cuba in Peru; it is 

 his intention to negotiate a commercial treaty 

 with Venezuela for the increase of commerce 

 between the two countries, which will result 

 especially in favor of Cuban cigars and 

 tobacco. 



COCOA ARRIVALS AT PORT OF NEW YORK 



Jan. 1 to Jan. 31, in Bags. 



1915 1914 1913 

 Cuba 2792 1700 1738 



TRADEMARK LAWS IN CUBA AND ARGEN- 

 TINA CAUSE LOSS AND INCONVEN- 

 IENCE TO AMERICAN MANU- 

 FACTURERS 



The Continental and Commercial Bank of 

 Chicago, in a circular letter to customers, calls 

 attention to the inconvenience and expense 

 which American manufacturers have been 

 put to because of their failure to protect their 

 trademarks under the laws of Cuba and 

 Argentina. The trademark laws of these two 

 countries are peculiar, and unscrui)ulous per- 

 sons by, filing claim to an unprotected trade- 

 mark are able to cause the confiscation or at- 

 tachment in the customs houses, of trade- 

 marked goods shipped by the rightful holder 

 of the trademark. The bank offers whatever 

 services it may be able to render to customers 

 who mav be interested. 



EXPORT BOUNTY ON TOBACCO 



The executive of Cuba is authorized, in a 

 law pubhshed November 7, 1914, to grant a 

 bounty of $10 for each 1,000 cigars manufac- 

 tured in Cuba and shi]5ped by the factory 

 direct to a foreign country. The executive 

 is also authorized to grant a bounty of 5 per 

 cent, ad valorem on raw tobacco exjjorted by 

 wholesale houses established in Cuba. These 

 bounties shall be granted for six months, but 

 the executive may renew them for two periods 

 of six months each if the same conditions 

 exist as at the present time. 



