THE CUBA REVIEW 



31 



The Sugar Industry 



U. S. Sugar Imports and Exports 



The sugar import and export trade of the 

 United States maintained in February the 

 unusual volume which marked the move- 

 ment during January, with the result that 

 totals for the first two months of 1922, 

 both inward and outward, stand at figures 

 materially larger than are recorded for the 

 corresponding period of any previous year. 

 Imports last month were the largest on rec- 

 lord for any February, totalling 502,041 

 jordinary tons (448,250 long tons) and ex- 

 ceeding by nearly 100,000 tons the previous 

 high figure of February, 1920, and by 

 nearly 150,000 tons the January total. 



Refined exports held fully up to the Jan- 

 uary mark, their total of 71,635 ordinary 

 tons (63,960 long tons) being 224 tons in 

 pxcess of the preceding month's figures, 

 ind being themselves exceeded by only one 

 previous February, that of 1916. 



For the first two months of the year to- 

 gether, the total of imports, 854,697 tons, 

 AS double the total for the corresponding 

 period last year and more than 184,000 

 ions in excess of the previous high figure, 

 srecorded in 1920. Refined exports for the 

 same period, totalling 143,046 tons, are 

 three times those of last year and 27,000 

 i:ons more than the exports of January and 

 February, 1916. 



How the export movement compares 

 kith that of previous years, for February 

 md for the two months' period, is shown 

 Dy the following tabulation, in tons of 

 ?,000 pounds: 



iTear 

 922. 

 921. 

 920. 

 919. 

 918. 

 917. 

 916. 

 915. 



Included in these figures for 1922 are 

 exports from Porto Rico of 65 tons in 

 February and 138 tons for the two months. 



As in January, the feature of the export 

 movement was the heavy shipments made 

 .0 Great Britain and France, which totalled 

 56,038 tons. This, although less by 6,776 



tons than the exports to these countries in 

 the preceding month, amounted to more 

 than half of the February total. Greece. 

 Argentina and Uruguay also figured again 

 as important customers last month, and 

 British India was a purchaser to the extent 

 of 5,645 tons. The following table shows 

 the distribution of exports in detail, in tons 

 of 2,000 pounds: 



The value of refined sugar exported in 

 February was $4,611,060, an average of 

 3.22 cents a pound, against an average of 

 3.32 cents in January. The value of ex- 

 ports for January and February together 

 was $9,349,578. 



