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THE CUBA REVIEW. 



COMMERCE OF CUBA. 



For the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1908. 



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EXPORTATION 



Cuba's Commerce With the World. 



Cuba offers a valuable market for 

 the products of American ranches, farms, 

 and factories. The United States buys 

 about seven-eighths of the Cuban ex- 

 ports and supplies nearly one-half of the 

 Cuban imports, as appears by the above 

 charts reduced from the official drawings 

 of the Cuban Secretary of the Treasury, 

 showing imports and exports during the 

 fiscal year ending June 30, 1908, the last 

 available statistics. 



Cuba exports sugar and tobacco and 

 imports foodstuffs and manufactured ar- 

 ticles. The imports for 1907-08 com- 

 pare with tlic previous fiscal year as fol- 

 lows: 



1906-07. 1907-08. 

 Foodstuffs . . . .$36,201,187 $35,284,551 

 Cotton man. . . . 8,147,500 10,417,451 

 Machinery .... 5,808,524 5,127,222 

 Iron & Steel . . . 5,484,378 5,942,968 

 Boots & Shoes . . 3.837.355 *4,i 16,098 



* Includes all leather goods. 



United States Trade With Cuba. 



November imports from Cuba : 



1908 1909 



$2,906,232 $3,308„033 



Eleven months ending November : 

 $76,618,197 $104,725,457 



November exports to Cuba : 



1908 1909 



$3,661,617 $4,794,229 



Eleven months ending November : 

 $28,630,030 $43,691,691 



IMPORTATION 



Exporting Cattle to Cuba. 



According to the present outlook, says 

 the New Orleans Picayune, the cattle ex- 

 porting business will be materially in- 

 creased this winter when Cuban buyers 

 will invest more heavily than in a long 

 time back in cows, bulls and hogs. Dur- 

 ing the summer months regular ship- 

 ments have been made from the stock- 

 yards to Cuban ports, more hogs being 

 exported than any other kind of live 

 stock, and the American hogs have the 

 reputation of discounting any other in 

 coming up to the requirements or ex- 

 pectations of the Cuban people. 



To Establish Colonies. 



One of the pet schemes of Sir William 

 Van Home, says La Lucha, is to establish 

 colonies along the land adjoining the rail- 

 road track, building farms, markets, and sta- 

 tions. The scheme will soon be put into 

 practice, beginning with the establishment 

 of an agricultural experiment station at Ca- 

 maguey, for researches and experiments 

 with fruits, textile plants, cattle and the 

 products of other native industries. 



Cloth Products for Cuba. 



Fred B. Harvey, of Farley, Harvey & 

 Co., of Boston, who carry cloth products, 

 said that some trade had been carried on 

 with Cuba by his house. So far as the 

 prices were concerned he felt satisfied 

 that that could be met very successfully. 



