16 THECUBAREVIEW 



THREE YEARS OF TRADE WITH CUBA 



EXPORTS SHOW PRONOUNCED INCREASE 



United States Imports from Cuba 



1911 . 1912 1913 



Value Value Value 



Cattle $379,636 $627,544 $425,336 



Copper ore 620,522 729,525 741,917 



Sugar — Cane 76,226,966 106,414,904 93,850,298 



Tobacco — Leaf 91,593 186,305 207,826 



Tobacco — All other 15,818,867 15,767,120 14,523,310 



Total imports for these three years. $106,098,026 $137,890,004 $125,093,740 



United States Exports to Cuba 



1911 , 

 Value 



Agricultural implements, and parts of $254,411 



Books, maps, etc 259,888 



Boards, joists, etc 2,288,005 



Boots and shoes 3.297,704 



Bacon 556,588 



Corn 1,402,792 



Cars — Passenger and freight 1,603,821 



Cotton cloth 1,657,757 



Coal— Bituminous 2,776,619 



Furniture 752,867 



Hams and shoulders — Cured 638,311 



iron and steel pipes and fittings 1,237,047 



Iron and steel sheets and plates 



Iron and steel, structural 802,685 



Leather— Glazed kid 47,878 



Lard 3,974,656 



Lard compounds and substitutes 1.542,264 



Locomotives — Steam 291,918 



Oil— Cottonseed 182,008 



Oil— Crude 374,298 



Oil— Illuminating 54,439 



Oil— Lubricating and heavy 395,454 



Pork— Pickled 806,512 



Printing paper 129,265 



Sewing machines 338,017 



Typewriting machines 101,721 



Tin plates, terneplates, etc 119,681 



Wheat flour 3,981,049 



Wagons 



Wire 560,931 



Total exports for these three years. $62,280,509 



UNITED STATES LOSING TRADE compete with other countries without the 



aid of a monopoly or a tariff, we are not 



Cuba's import figures show that only in in the game. The United States at one 



the one food product of flour, and in such time controlled the Cuban trade in electrical 



things as are a monopoly by reason of not supplies, but now she is steadily losmg_ to 



being made in other countries, such as cash Germany. In all kinds of manufacturing 



registers, adding machines and the like, machinery we had at first a monopoly but 



the United States has little in the import now we are_ steadily losing to Germany and 



trade of Cuba. When we are compelled to Great Britain. 



