THE CUBA REVIEW 13 



of lading. Another item of great interest to American exporters is point 1 1 of this reso- 

 lution, providing that "the proper customs authorities should indicate, in case their advice 

 is asked through chambers of commerce or consular officers, and the sample of any 

 article of importation is submitted, the classification, appraisal, and duties to which such 

 article is subject." It is also recommended that catalogues of American exporting houses 

 should be exempted from customs duties and that necessary steps should be taken to 

 facilitate the refund of bond deposited in any customhouse through which merchandise 

 provisionally entered is reexported. 



An international conference on motor roads, to be held at a time and place selected 

 by the Directorate of the Pan American Union, has for its subject the careful study of 

 the road problems of Latin America for better transportation facilities between their 

 ports and inland cities. This is to be wholly a technical conference, called only after 

 careful surveys have been made, and discussions are to embrace means of financing as 

 well as the actual construction. 



Spirit of the Conference. 



The efforts to eliminate existing barriers to inter-American commerce was con- 

 certed; each of the delegates of the 18 countries present carefully weighed the question 

 under discussion in its relation to existing laws and policies of his Government and only 

 assented after due deliberation had been given to ways and means of making effective, 

 within his country, the recommendations passed upon. 



Possibly the greatest obstacle in the past to the successful fruition of the acts of 

 economic conferences has been the failure to provide means for carrying through their 

 programs. With this in mind, the Fifth Pan American Conference requested the Inter 

 American High Commission to cooperate toward the drawing up and enforcement of the 

 program of this conference in so far as it bears directly on the purposes and work of the 

 Inter American High Commission. As all of the commercial questions mentioned above 

 come within the scope of the commission it is reasonable to expect that before the next 

 conference is held many of the vexatious problems of the present will have been solved. 



Aside from the actual accompHshments of this conference, possibly of equal signifi- 

 cance was the manner in which economic questions were approached. A spirit of frank- 

 ness, an earnest desire to cooperate, an inter-American viewpoint characterized the pro- 

 ceedings of each of the committee considering these matters, and it can not be doubted 

 that each delegate returned to his country with a better understanding of the community 

 of interests with his neighbors and a greater appreciation of the full meaning of Inter 

 American friendship than ever before. 



School Decree Cuban Trade 



Secretary Gonzalez Manet signed a de- Due to the present high price of sugar, 



cree granting a credit of $5,000 for the which is its leading export, Cuba has taken 



reconstruction and repair of the school the lead over all other countries in the 



building at Bayamo, Oriente. Secretary value of exports to the United States durmg 



Manet was warmly congratulated for this ^he recent quarter, makmg a gam of 12 per 



decree, due to the fact that the school 



cent, over the exports during the same 



1 -, T 1 1 • , , • • , r ^ , quarter of 1922. 



buildmg has a high historic value for Cuba, ^^^ ^^^^j ^^^^^^ ^^ p^^^^^^^ ^^^^-^.^^ j^ 



for there Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, first ^^^ United States from Cuba during this 



president of Cuba during the revolution of period is $113,874,000. Great Britain is 



'68, Estrada Palma, Zenea and other promi- second on the list with a valuation of 



ent patriots received their primary educa- $110,466,000, Canada $91,592. and Japan 



tion. $88,707. 



