T H E C U B A R E T' I E W 



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The Sugar Industry 



U. S. Sugar Trade in October 



An increase of 21,000 tons in imports 

 and a decrease of approximately'' the same 

 amount in refined exports, which fell off 

 to less than half of September's total and 

 the lowest figures recorded for any month 

 this j^ear since April, marked the foreign 

 trade of the United States in sugar during 

 October. 



Imports totalled 180,984 tons for the 

 month, against 158,000 tons in September 

 and 135,853 tons in October, 1920, being 

 the second heaviest import movement re- 

 corded for any October of the past seven 

 j^ears. The increase was due to the larger 

 arrivals of Cubas, which amounted to 147,- 

 852 tons for the month against 117,736 

 tons in September. There was also an in- 

 crease of approximately 12,000 tons in im- 

 ports of duty free sugars, which totalled 

 29,480 tons, all from the Philippines, against 

 11,868 tons from the Philippines and 5,389 

 tons from the Virgin Islands in September. 



Offsetting these increases was a decrease 

 of nearly 20,000 tons in full duty imports, 

 which were only 3,652 tons all told, the 

 smallest volume of importations of this 

 class of sugars to appear in the trade bal- 

 ance in many a month. 



With the October returns at hand, com- 

 pleting the figures for the first ten months 

 of 1921, a total importation of 2,554,742 

 tons is shown, of which, 2,023,938 tons 

 were supplied by Cuba. 134,124 tons were 

 duty free sugars from the Philippine and 

 Virgin Islands, and 216,679 tons were full 

 duty sugars, largely from Santo Domingo. 

 This is a good deal smaller than the impor- 

 tation in the corresponding period of 1920 

 and 1919, but is larger than that of preced- 

 ing years, as the following table (in tons 

 of 2,000 pounds) indicates: 



U. S. Sugar Imports 



Year October Ten Months 



1921 180,984 2,554,742 



1920 135,853 3,339,149 



1919 285,635 3,196,070 



1918 148,457 2,381,918 



1917 89,419 2,396,665 



1916 169,014 2,507,321 



1915 94,251 2,394.399 



A comparison of the figures of imports 

 by classes shows that imports from Cuba 



have likewise fairly approximated the 

 amount of sugar purchased from that 

 market in years previous to 1919, while 

 they are a little over 500,000 tons less than 

 imports of Cubas in 1920 for the same pe- 

 riod. Full duty imports have been heavier 

 than in any previous year, with the excep- 

 tion of 1920, as have also those of duty 

 free sugars. The following table shows the 

 comparative movement in ordinary tons: 



1921 



Cubati 2,203,938 



Full duty . . 216,679 

 Dutyfree.. 134,124 



1920 1919 



2,714,875 3,043.198 

 767,285 54,932 

 156,989 97,940 



Total. 



2,.554,742 3,639,149 3,196.070 



Completion of the shipment of the Santo 

 Domingo crop accounts for the marked de- 

 crease in full duty receipts recorded, im- 

 ports from this source being only 867 tons 

 in October, against 19,868 tons the 

 month before. The figures of these 

 imports, in detail, are as follows, in tons of 

 2,000 pounds: 



Total . 



3,652 



216,679 



The distribution of imports during Oc- 

 tober by ports of receipt was: Xew York, 

 78,976 tons; Philadelphia, 64,645; Boston, 

 11,583; Savannah, 7,254; New Orleans, 

 10,282; Galveston, 7,452; San Francisco, 

 4; other ports, 788. 



The value of the October imports was 

 $10,207,266, an average of 2.82 cents a 

 pound, against $9,236,701, an average of 

 2.92 cents, in September. 



Exports of refined sugar in October were 

 only 19,332 tons, a figure which brings the 

 total for the first ten months of the yenv to 

 412,324 tons, or about 23,000 tons less than 

 those of 1920. With the exception o 



