THE CUBA REVIEW 



23 



THE SUGAR INDUSTRY 



SUGAR FOR THE UNITED KINGDOM 



The following table, which is based upon 

 the London Board of Trade returns, shows the 

 sources and extent of the imports of sugar 

 into the United Kingdom in the last two 

 .years (October to September). The total 

 amount of sugar imported was 1,975,812 tons 

 in 1912-13 as compared with 1,684,985 tons 

 in 1911-12. 



Imports into the United Kingdom, in tons, 

 are as follows : 



Beet Sugar — Refined. 



1912-13 1911-12 



Russia 9,214 126,513 



Germany 453,574 226,130 



The Netherlands 189,403 163,596 



Belgium 64,963 53,775 



France 35,180 6,144 



Austria-Hungary 175,701 106,224 



Other countries 5 



Totals 928,040 



Unrefined. 



Russia 



Germany 440,611 



The Netherlands 28,446 



Belgium 24,717 



France 634 



Austria-Hungary 148,573 



Denmark 35,590 



Totals 678,571 



Raw Cane Sugar. 



Jaya 5,850 



The Philippines 



Cuba 223,520 



Peru 28,661 



Dut-ch Guiana 3,530 



Brazil .. 5,221 



Haiti, Santo Domingo. 8,957 



^Mauritius 21,655 



British India 4,545 



Mexico 5,203 



Straits Settlements 



British West Indies, 



Guiana & Honduras. 45,388 



British East Africa ... ^ 300 ' 



Mozambique 7,134 



Venezuela 100 



Guatemala 3,522 



San Salyador 1,215 



United States.: 2,300 



Portugal 1,900 



Danish West Indies . . 200 



Totals 369,201 



Refined. 



Java 



India 



Mauritius 



Eg>Tt -. 



Mexico, Victoria 



682,382 



344 



28,863 



28,015 



8,281 



3,482 



110,523 



7,400 



184,908 



281,327 



5,756 



86,643 



62,494 



3,457 



13,157 



42,559 



37,595 



82,685 



20,359 



1,360 



40,255 



21,748 



699,395 



33,000 

 22,700 

 15,700 

 13,700 

 2,300 



United States 30,200 



Jamaica 700 



Total 118,300 



In 1912-13 29,856 tons were re-exported as 

 compared with 42,969 tons in 1911-12.— 

 West India Committee Circular, London. 



SCARCITY OF SUGAR BAGS 



It w-as reported from Tokio, without con- 

 firmation, that German cruiser had sunk six 

 British steamers off the coast of India. One 

 of these vessels was supposed to be carrying 

 a million sugar bags. 



As all sugar bags come from Calcutta, and 

 as, since the war started, there have been no 

 bags shipped from Calcutta, the report of the 

 sinking of these English vessels is of great im- 

 portance to the sugar trade. 



In normal times a standard Cuban bag can 

 be delivered in New York at 8 cents or less. 

 Now they are selling close to 40 cents. Most 

 of the present supply is being drawn from the 

 stock on hand in Liverpool. The coming 

 sugar crop will begin to be ground about 

 December of this year, and unless bags can 

 be provided, a serious situation will arise. — 

 Wall Street .Journal. 



MAY LOSE JAVA'S SUGAR 



If German cruisers retain control of the 

 Indian Ocean, there is extreme doubt as to 

 Great Britain's eventual receipt of the 400,000 

 to 500,000 tons of Java sugars already bought. 

 Without this supply Great Britain must 

 eventually appear in the United States for 

 larger supphes, although not in the immediate 

 future, as without Java it has bought suffi- 

 cient supplies from other directions to supply 

 her demand until December. 



SHIPMENTS OF SUGAR 



Shipments of refined sugar to foreign coun- 

 tries during the month of July aggregated 

 only 1,874,258 pounds, valued at $62,995. An 

 enormous increase was experienced in the 

 first twenty-five days of August. The ex- 

 ports were 66,539,077 pounds; nearly all of 

 this was to England, Scotland and Ireland. 



WEST INDIA MOLASSES COMPANY 



It is reported by a Chicago paper that the 

 ^^'est India Molasses Company of New Or- 

 leans has begun the construction of a plant at 

 Port Arthur, Tex. The company will bring 

 Blackstrap mola.s.ses to that port from Cuba, 

 and will ship from there by rail using tank 

 cars. 



