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THE CUBA REVIEW 



RECENT PUBLICATIONS 



Ernest B. Filsinger 

 ••EXPORTING TO LATIN AMERICA' 



By Ernest B. Filsinger 



This book, which has been recently pub- 

 lished by D. Appleton & Compam', shows 

 evidences of great care in its preparation 

 and contains a mine of information for those 

 American merchants who desire to enter the 

 export field of Latin America. The volume 

 treats exhaustively the question of how to 

 enter the export field. Various problems 

 that beset the American manufacturer who 

 desires to extend his trade to countries out- 

 side of the United States are taken up one 

 by one, and if Mr. Filsinger's advice be fol- 

 lowed there is no reason why the manufac- 

 turer should not be successful in selling his 

 product. 



The first part of the book gives an analysis 

 of commerce with Latin America and the 

 various chapters treat with the following 

 important subjects. 



European and American methods con- 

 trasted; 



E.xport Commission Houses and Export 

 Agents — Their functions; 



Traveling Salesmen; 

 Planning a Sales Trip; 

 Merchants of Latin .\merica — 'I'heir 

 Business, Customs and Methods. 



Other chapters treat with correspondence, 

 handling of orders, invoices and all sorts 

 of shipping documents, ocean freight rates, 

 marine insurance, etc. An importatit chap- 

 ter has to do with credits in Latin .\merica, 

 and the banking situation is carefully re- 

 viewed. There is also a chapter on tariffs, 

 custom house regulations and taxes. 



That part of the book which treats with 

 the necessity of carefully studj'ing the export 

 market is extremely well e.\pressed and the 

 reader is told in no uncertain terms the 

 necessity of carefully studying the conditions 

 before attempting to put his i)roduct in the 

 market. There is also a valuable appendix 

 which gives all sorts of information useful 

 to exporters, and reference is also made to 

 periodicals, books, etc., which would be of 

 service to the exporter. 



Mr. Filsinger has treated a serious problem 

 in a serious way, and his book deserves 

 earnest perusal by all interested in the prob- 

 lem which is at present exciting more interest 

 than ever, that of extending the e.xport trade 

 of the United States. 



The Caribbean Interests of the United States. By 

 Chester Lloyd Jones, Professor of Political Science, 

 University of Wisconsin. Published by D. Apple- 

 ton & Co., N. 'i. Cloth, $2.50 net. 



The influence of the Ignited States among 

 its southern neighbors is steadily increasing. 

 We have now become the most important 

 nation in the (^aribbean in political, naval and 

 economic affairs. The Panama Canal has 

 drawn out attention southward, and it has, 

 as naval experts declare, doubled the strength 

 of our fleet, and at the same time greatly in- 

 creased our responsibilities in the seas south 

 of us. With the expansion of our political 

 and naval interest has gone a similar increase 

 in our economic interests. American capital 

 in the Caribbean is now the main support of 

 many of its most important industries. In 

 this volume the author has set forth in clear 

 outline the varied phases of Caribbean devel- 

 opment, social, political and economic, es- 

 pecially as they bear upon the interests of the 

 United States. It is the first volume in this 



