THECUBAREVIEW 19 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



THE CANADIAN SUGAR TRADE 



By Consul Henry P. Starrett, Owen Sound, Ontario 



The total annual consumption of refined sugar in the Dominion of Canada amounts, 

 in round figiu-es to approximately $30,000,000, based on domestic refiners' prices. There 

 were eight sugar refineries and factories in the Dominion in 1911 (the latest year for which 

 statistics are available), having a total capitaUzation of $19,720,333, employing 2,164 persons, 

 and producing $21,260,011 worth of sugar. These factories were located: 1 in Alberta, 

 1 in British Columbia, 2 in Nova Scotia, 2 in Ontario, and 2 in Quebec. In the ten- 

 year period, 1931-1911, the value of the output of this industry increased nearly 80 per 

 cent. The western factories have confined their operations to beet sugar, while the eastern 

 refineries have largely produced refined sugar. 



Sources of Imports. 



The total importation into Canada of sugar not above No. 16 Dutch standard — which 

 represents the great bulk of the purchases — for the fiscal years ended March 31, 1912, 1913 

 and 1914, were as follows: 



1911-1912 1912-1913 1913-1914 



Imported from: Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value. Pounds. Value. 



United States 6,659,654 ,$203,019 37,858,867 $923,239 5,458,664 $117,927 



Austria-Hungarv 8,702,318 324,386 



Belgiinn 7,762,762 166,692 



British Guiana 172,338,580 4,978,899 137,091,896 3,352,058 161,433,217 3,521586 



British West Indies .. 165,619,867 3,977,627 141,470,394 4,179,661104,021,245 2,210,656 



Cuba 29,349,044 908,879 34,985,299 949,072 112,185,879 2,321,425 



Danish West Indies. . 3,279,587 77,224 9,901,777 241,411 12,290,330 259,132 



Dutch East Indies .. . 55,113,195 1,299,977 129,544,252 3,564,975 13,131,353 292,427 



Dutch Guiana 872,448 24,865 3,692,668 81,965 10,421,856 205,317 



Fiji Islands 5,937,716 130,304 10,867,528 268,004 11,563,544 239,180 



Germanv 2,161,584 85,382 13,217,012 300,914 46,950,829 999,349 



Guatemala 989,200 22,993 1,505,300 39,084 2,563,923 54,595 



Japan 21,361,900 480,193 11,200,000 863,986 



Peru 3,203,200 74,126 19,429,800 429,581 31,471,000 647,403 



Santo Domingo 41,256,009 1,012,412 75,122,294 1,871,942 147,712,760 2,932,734 



Other countries 12,124,239 290,297 



Totals 528,968,541 13,890,583 633,649,849 16,732,584 659,204,600 13,801,731 



Other Grades — Trade Readjustment. 



Of sugar above No. 16 Dutch standard (this classification including all refined sugars) 

 the Dominion, in the fiscal year 1911-12, imported 23,663,109 pounds, valued at .$843,466, 

 the United Kingdom supplving 19,125,247 pounds (value, $680,450), Hongkong 3,709,891 

 poimds (value. $132,205), and the United States 480,387 pounds (value, $21,666). In 1912-13 

 these imports were: Total, 19,669,304 pounds (value, $720,822), of which the United Kingdom 

 furnished 13,970,151 poimds (value, .$515,176); Hongkong, 4,036,392 pounds (value, $141,602); 

 and the United States, 682,419 pounds (value, $32,653). In 1913-14, the imports aggregated 

 10,033,576 pounds (value, $310,969), the share of the United Kingdom in this trade being 

 6,065,468 pounds (value, $176,056), that of Hongkong 3,564,476 pounds (value, $119,081), and 

 that of the United States 259,847 pounds (value, $10,943). 



Of raw sugar imported to be refined in Canada by Canadian sugar refiners (exclusive of 

 that entered for consumption on which a refund of duty was subsequently obtained), the total 

 for the Dominion was 25,396,807 pounds (value, $629,277); in 1911-12, Belgium supplying 

 4,425,524 pounds (value, $125,326) and Germany 20,971,283 pounds (value, $593,951)." In 

 1912-13 Canada's raw sugar imports, totaUng 17,198,446 pounds (value, .$421,916), aU came 

 from Cuba; in 1913-14, when imports amounted to 35,046,850 pounds (value, $679,831), Cuba 

 furnished 20,386,026 pounds (value, $410,471), and Santo Domingo 12,831,768 pounds (value, 

 $233,410). 



The figures given above decreases in the importations from Great Britain, the British 

 West Indies, and the United States; a practically stationary trade with British Guiana in 

 1913 and 1914, and ver\' large increases in purchases from Cuba, Germany and Santo Domingo. 

 This readjustment in the foreign trade is a direct result of the changes that naturally followed 



