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THE. CUBA REVIEW 



Nearly 80 per cent of the sugar ex- 

 ported in February went out of the port of 

 New York, the distribution of export ship- 

 ments to date being as follows, in ordinary 

 tons: 



Two 

 Exported from February months 



New York 56,201 104,613 



Philadelphia 12,628 20,681 



Boston 208 793 



New Orleans 2,053 15,746 



San Francisco 124 313 



Other ports 356 762 



Porto Rico 65 138 



Total 71,635 143,046 



Of the 502,041 tons of sugar imported 

 during February, Cuba supplied 488,254 

 tons. Cuban receipts being 119,000 tons in 

 excess of the largest previous February 

 movement, in 1920, and 155,000 tons in 

 excess of receipts in January. Arrivals of 

 Philippine and full duty sugars were also 

 larger than in January, the latter amount- 

 ing to 5,514 tons. 



The February receipts in detail, other 

 than those from Cuba, were: from the 

 Philippines, 8,273 tons; Mexico, 3,780 

 tons; Nicaragua, 1,218 tons; Guatemala, 

 506 tons; Hongkong, 8 tons, and 1,538 

 pounds from Canada. 



The comparative import movement of 

 Cuban, duty free and full duty sugars for 

 January and February together, in years 

 since 1914, is as follows, in tons of 2,000 

 pounds : 



Duty Full 

 Jan. -Feb. Cubas free duty Total 



1922 835,338 12,436 6,923 854,697 



1921 378,323 1,666 45,070 435,059 



1920 584,381 247 85,588 670,216 



1919 516,024 41,526 8,127 565,677 



1918 375,752 8,933 5,268 389,953 



1917 395,021 20,651 22,915 438,587 



1916 541,519 9,716 21,553 482,788 



1915 285,850 .... 11,821 297,671 



The value of sugar imported during 

 February was $19,462,357, an average of 

 1.94 cents a pound, against an average of 

 1.99 cents in January. The value of im- 

 ports for January and February together 

 was $33,507,662, as compared with a value 

 of $44,153,082 borne by sugar imported in 

 the corresponding months of 1921. 



The distribution of imports by ports of 

 destination, for February and for the two 



months, was as follows, in tons of 2,00C 

 pounds: 



Two 



months 



471,231 



182,994 



53,104 



26,108 



78,750 



27,089 



8,92/ 



5,013 



1,473 



Imported at February 



New York 263,841 



Philadelphia 116,319 



Boston 33,387 



Savannah 17,403 



New Orleans 47,594 



Galveston 14,166 



San Francisco 4,724 



El Paso 3,758 



Other ports 848 



Hawaii 1 



Total 502,041 



854,697 



U. S. Refined Exports 



The third largest month's business in the 

 export of refined sugar on record in the 

 trade statistics of the United States and 

 the largest in any month since June, 1919, 

 was done in March, 1922, according to the 

 figures released this week by the customs 

 division of the treasury. These show ex- 

 ports for the month of 121,480 ordinary 

 tons (108,464 long tons), as compared with 

 67,635 tons in February and 12,799 tons in 

 March, 1921. 



A Record for First Quarter 



As a result of the extraordinarily heavy 

 export shipments during the month, added 

 to a larger than average business during 

 January and February, the figures for the 

 three months of 1922 ending March 31 set 

 a new high record for the first quarter of 

 any year. They aggregate 260,526 tons, 

 which is 64,000 tons more than the pre- 

 vious record established in the first quarter 

 of 1916. The nearest approach to last 

 month's figures in any March on record was 

 also made in 1916, with 80,418 tons. 



The two months which show a larger 

 export movement than March are June, 

 1919, with 143,499 tons, and July, 1916. 

 with 122,733 tons. The corresponding quar- 

 ters of those years are also the only quar- 

 terly periods in which refined exports 

 touched higher levels of volume. The rec- 

 ord of 286,081 tons established in the sec- 

 ond quarter of 1919 still stands, followed 

 by the third quarter of 1916 with 269,478 

 tons. The 1919 figures, it will be recalled, 

 however, included very heavy shipments of 

 su7ars belonging to the British Royal Com- 



