THE CUBA REVIEW 



27 



FURTHER TRADE NEWS 



HAVANA S CUSTOM HOUSE COLLECTIONS 



The Xovember collections of the Havana 

 custom house compare as follows : 



1913 $1,929,107 



1912 2,191,747 



1911 2.022.293 



1910 1,769.859 



1909 1.759.682 



inns 1.446,351 



1907 1.739,743 



SANTA DOMINO S CUBAN TRADE 



Imports from Cuba compare as follows : 



1911 1912 



$8,262 $6,578 



Exports to Cuba during the same period 

 were : 



1911 1912 



$20,907 $15,429 



One article comprises all the exports and 

 that was fibre. 



The Xovember customs collections of 

 Matanzas amounted to $97,585. 



AMERICANS PROTEST AGAINST 

 REGULATIONS 



The Drug Trade section of the New 

 York Board of Trade and Transportation 

 at their latest monthly meeting on Decem- 

 ber 3rd empowered its committee on legis- 

 lation to address a letter of protest against 

 the Cuban government's new pharmaceu- 

 tical regulations* to the Cuban Secretary 

 of Sanitation and Beneficence and also to 

 request the United States Secretary of 

 State to register a similar protest with the 

 Cuban government. These Cuban phar- 

 maceutical regulations seek to compel all 

 foreign manufacturers of proprietary rem- 

 edies to state on their labels the compo- 

 nents to which their specifics owe their 

 medicinal value and also attempt to force 

 these manufacturers to register and obtain 

 certificates for each of the articles which 

 they offer for sale in Cuba. 



*These regulations in full were printed in The 

 Cuba Review for November. 



CUBA S IMPORTS OF EGGS 



In the year 1912 Cuba imported 110,000,- 

 000 eggs from the United States. 



Lumber Exports to Cuba 



PITCH PINE SHIPMENTS 



The present year will show materially 

 larger lumber shipment to Cuba than ever 

 before recorded. From January 1st to last 

 week the movement aggregates 124,248.783 

 superficial feet, which closely approaches 

 the figure for all of 1910. hitherto the most 

 active year in the history of the trade. Tlie 

 following table shows the quantity directed 

 to each of the chief port.sb^'- the island so 

 far in 1913, the figures beiii^. fi?^ superficial 

 feet, board measure: . '_ 



Havana 49,75'2,414 



Santiago , 8,909,003 



Sagua la Grande . 8,129,368 



Cienfuegos 7.940.195 



Caibarien 7,369.696 



Cardenas 6,668,709 



Matanzas 6,480,370 



Xipe Bay 5,852,711 



:\Ianzanillo 4,518,111 



Tsabela de Sagua 4,299,897 



Guantanamo 2,936,910 



Puerto Padre 2,443,966 



Cay Frances 1,762,569 



Banes 1,367,389 



Gibara 1.328,410 



r^Ianati 1,208,964 



This includes all ports to which a million 

 feet or more has been exported from the 

 Gulf since the beginning of the year. 

 Among these showing the best percentage 

 of gain are Santiago. Isabela de Sagua. 

 Matanzas and X'^ipe Ba3^ Havana shipment 

 has corresponded more nearly to that of 

 the preceding year, but the end of the year 

 will see its total larger than ever before. 



Something over two and a half million 

 feet was cleared from Alobile. Pascagoula 

 and Tampa for Cuban ports during the 

 week. — X'ovember 22d. 



The entire lumber imports of Cuba from 

 the United States in previous years com- 

 pare as follows. The quantities are in feet. 



Fiscal year Quantity Value 



1909-10 141.257.000 $2,084,069 



1910-11 146,852.000 2,265.395 



1911-12 123.233.000 2.055.311 



Cuban movement holds up rather better 

 than expected, and a limited number of 

 new inquiries are in sight. — Xovember 15th. 

 • Cuban inquiry is a little better than it 

 has been. 



The week's outgo for Cuba comprised 

 about one and a quarter million feet. — X'o- 

 vember 29th. 



