THE CUBA REVIEW 



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U. S. Tariff Commission 



The following Notice is taken from Com- 

 merce Reports: 



Sugar. 



"Notice is hereby given, pursuant to sec- 

 tion 315 of the Tariff Act of 1922, that a 

 public hearing in the foregoing investiga- 

 tion will be held at the office of the United 

 States Tariff Commission in Washington, 

 D. C, at 10 o'clock a. m. on the 15th day 

 of January, 1924, at which all parties in- 

 terested will be given an opportunity to 

 be present, to produce evidence, and to 

 be heard with regard to the differences in 

 cost of production and of all other facts 

 and conditions enumerated in section 315 

 of the Tariff Act of 1922 with respect to 

 the following article described in para- 

 graph 503 of Title I of said tariff act; 

 namely, sugar, being wholly or in part the 

 growth or product of the United States, 

 and of and with respect to like or similar 

 articles wholly or in part the growth or 

 product of competing foreign countries. 



"The notice shall be published by post- 

 ing a copy thereof for 30 days prior to 

 said 15th day of January, 1924, at the 

 principal office of the commission in the 

 city of Washington, D. C, and at the of- 

 fice of the commission at the port of New 

 York, and by publishing a copy thereof 

 prior to said date once each week for two 

 successive weeks in Treasury Decisions, 

 published by the Department of the Treas- 

 ury, and in Commerce Reports, published 

 by the Department of Commerce. 



"By order of the United States Tariff 

 Commission this 16th day of October, 1923. 

 "John F. Bethune, Secretary. 



"PUBLIC NOTICE of investigation by 

 the United States Tariff Commission un- 

 der the provisions of section 315 of 

 Title III of the Tariff Act of 1922. 

 Investigation No. 32 by the United States 

 Tariff Commission for the purposes of 

 section 315 of the Tariff Act of 1922." 



Central American Sugar Crops 



In accordance with recent consular re- 

 ports prospects for satisfactory 1923-24 

 sugar crops in the countries of Centra! 

 America are encouraging. Honduras, 

 where the cane suffered considerably from 



the drouth preceding the rains of last June, 

 is the only country where unfavorable con- 

 ditions are found, and the Honduras crop, 

 it is estimated, will reach 17.000 tons, 

 which will be an increase of 7,000 tons over 

 1922-23, but far below the early estimates 

 for 1923-24, which ran up to 40,000 tons. 



Weather conditions in Salvador have 

 been favorable and unless unforeseen con- 

 ditions set in a normal crop will be made. 



Optimism as to agricultural prospects 

 also prevails in Costa Rica, where sugar 

 plantings show an increase ov-er last year 

 as a result of higher prices. 



Estimate of the 1923-24 Java Sugar Crop 



The June estimate of sugar produciion, 

 made by the Java Producers" Association. 

 forecasts a total of 1,528,067 long tons of 

 sugar of all kinds, as compared with the 

 May estimate of 1,538,716 long tons. Mills 

 not connected with the association gener- 

 ally produce about 182,100 long tons annu- 

 ally. The combined output of associated 

 and independent mills may therefore be 

 estimated at 1,710,167 long tons. Esti- 

 mated production, by grades, of the mills 

 comprising the Java Producers" Association 

 is as follows : 



Long tons 



Superior head sugars 842,769 



Superior soft sugars 14.898 



Channels and muscovados ()51.378 



Molasses sugar 18.751 



Bag sugar 451 



Total 1.528.067 



Vice Consul Rollin R. U'inslo-u', Soera- 



baya. 



World Crop Figures Revised 



A revised estimate of the world's pro- 

 duction of cane and beet sugar for the 

 crop year 1922-23. issued by the Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, places the total at 

 20,447,041 ordinary tons (18.25o.2S6 long 

 tons). This is in practical agreement with 

 the department "s earlier estimate of last 

 March, and represents an increase of 

 roundly 270,000 tons over the department's 

 figures for the 1921-22 world crop, which 

 are 20,174,738 ordinary tons (18,01.>.13O 

 Ion'' tons). 



