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THE CUBA REVIEW 



CUBAN COMMERCIAL MATTERS 



CANADA'S TRADE WITH CUBA 



According to the official figures of the 

 Canadian Government, Canada's total com- 

 merce with Cuba in 1902, was $813,402. In 

 1913, it had increased to $4,272,415. 



The figures for twelve months' trade, end- 

 ing March 31, 1913, follow: 



Canada's exports consisted of the following 

 articles, with their values: 



Mineral products $8,852 



Fisher}' products 415,386 



Forest products 359,624 



Animals and other products 6,850 



Agricultural products 640,734 



Manufactures 95,397 



$1,526,843 

 Canada's imports from Cuba consisted of 

 the following articles: 



Raw sugar $1,390,938 



Leaf tobacco 734,892 



Cigars 598,625 



Cigarettes 1,827 



Coffee 7,913 



Fruits 3,124 



Other articles 8,253 



$2,745,572 

 The Hahfax Board of Trade has asked 

 George E. Foster, Minister of Trade and 

 Commerce, to take steps to bring about a 

 commercial treaty between Canada and Cuba 

 in order that producers and manufacturers 

 in the Dominion may be benefited by greatly 

 increased trade, and that a regular steamship 

 line between CaBada and Cuba may event- 

 ually be established. 



FOREIGN MARKETS SOUGHT 



The Cuban Department of Agi-iculture, 

 which some time ago urged Cuban pine 

 growers to send consignments of pines to the 

 Cuban legations and consulates in various 

 countries to obtain reports as to the ad- 

 visability of finding a market in Europe, will 

 now send a trial shipment of late pines to 

 St. Nazaire. 



Reports received by Sub-Secretary of 

 Agriculture, Lorenzo Arian from Brussels 

 state that if rapid transportation is secured 

 and the fruit receives proper handling a good 

 market can be found in Belgium where the 

 pines received are from the Azores, the prices 

 ruling, being prohibitive. 



Experiments with exporting grapefruit will 

 be made later in the season. 



A shipment of Cuban pineapples was re- 

 cently made to Sweden with what result is not 

 stated. 



One hundred boxes of 24s made the first 

 shipment. The pines went by waj' of New 

 York. They were shipped in especiallj- made 

 boxes, containing twenty pines each and 

 packed in one layer. 



The instructions of the house in Sweden 

 were that the pines were to be packed in 

 excelsior, but as this kind of packing was not 

 available in Cuba, dry leaves from the royal 

 palm were used. 



CONSIGNMENTS TO GUANTANAMO BAY 



The attention of American shippers is 

 called to the fact that in order to secure 

 exemption from customs duties and charges 

 for merchandise intended for officers and 

 employees at the United States Naval Station, 

 Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, it is necessary that 

 this address should appear in full on such 

 consignments. If goods are consigned simply 

 to Guantanamo, Cuba, which is a regular 

 port of entry, they must be discharged at the 

 port of Guantanamo, and they wiU be subject 

 to the payment of duties and other customs 

 charges.^U. S. Consul, Ross E. Holaday, 

 Santiago de Cuba, March 25. 



SPANISH PEANUTS TO CUBA 



Valencia's (Spain) peanut exports to Cuba 

 for the period beginning October 1, 1912, and 

 ending September 30, 1913, were 21 sacks, 

 110.23 pounds each. 



PORTO RICO AND CUBA 



For the nine months ending with ^Slarch, 

 the trade of Porto Rico with Cuba, according 

 to the figures of the United States Depart- 

 ment of Commerce, compares as follows: 

 1913 1914 



Exports to Cuba $2,977,068 $2,371,826 



Imports from Cuba. . . . 54,816 34,018 

 Porto Rico's exports to the I'epublic con- 

 sisted in the main of coffee, of which Cuba is a 

 large consumer. The statistics of the Cuban 

 Treasury Department show imports of coffee 

 from Porto Rico for 12 months as follows: 

 1911 1912 



$3,551,755 $3,287,436 



PINEAPPLES TO BALTIMORE 



A company in the Isle of Pines, which may 

 construct a fruit canning establishment in 

 the island, recently made a shipment of 

 12,000 dozen pineapples to Baltimore, con- 

 signed to a canning establishment in that city. 



Should the experiment prove a success, 

 there will be no difficulty experienced in 

 shipping the fruit in larger bulk to the same 

 citv. 



EGGS IN PLENTY 



Six milhon dozen eggs were imported by 

 Cuba from the United States in 1913. 



