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menciona los azucares crudes, de ahi el que nuestra opinion sea que los tipos de la antigua 

 tarifa no han cambiado en este respecto. El Gobierno ha decidido tambien imponer 

 49c. de derecho de consumo por las cien libras en al azucar de remolacha del pais, lo 

 cual es la primera vez en los anales de la industria del azucar de remolacha que se 

 haja fijado tal impuesto. Ostro detalle importante en Presupuesto es el aumento de 

 50 por ciento en la contribucion general de ventas, permaneciendo sin cambio la contri- 

 bucion de ingresos. 

 \ NuEvos Tipos de Derechos 



Preferencial General 



Azucar que pase del Tipo Holandes No. 16 y refinado. 



Polarizacion Q6 grados y por bajo 1.49 1/3 2.24 



Polarizacion 99 grados y mas 1.59 1/3 2.39 



Azucar que no pase del Tipo Holandes Xo. 16. 



Polarizacion 75 grados y por bajo 70 1.1608 



Polarizacion 96 grados 85 1.68712 



Polarizacion 99 grados y mas 87-1/4 1.83-1/4 



Los azucares de mas del Tipo Holandes Xo. 16 importados por refinadores fueron 

 tasados en una tarifa anterior miayor derecho que los azucares de 96 grados bajo el 

 Tipo Holandes Xo. 16, pero bajo el ultimo Acuerdo del Comercio de las Antillas, los 

 refinadores pueden importar azucares lavados que pasen del Tipo Holandes Xo. 16 a 

 los mismos derechos que los azucares polarizacion 96 grados. En otras palabras. no 

 se impone derecho por azucares de color claro, y la linica base sobre la cual se impondra 

 derecho sera realmente el ensaye de polarizacicn. 



Xueva York, Mayo 24 de 1922. 



Six Months Sugar Production in 

 Western Europe 



Official figures for the French production 

 of sugar for the first six months fSeptember- 

 februar\-j of the 1921-22 season are given 

 in the Journal des Fabricants de Sucre for 

 March 25, 1922, as 274,559 metric tons 

 'refined value), compared with 303,123 tons 

 for the first half of 1920-21. The produc- 

 tion for the season is estimated on this 

 basis at 280,000 tons, compared with 

 305,000 tons in 1920-21. Stocks of domes- 

 tic sugar on March 1, 1922, amounted to 

 65,451 tons, against 127.557 tons on March 1, 

 1921. 



The production of sugar in Belgium for 

 the first six months rSeptember-Februar\-j 

 of the 1921-22 season is officially given as 

 289,082 metric tons (raw), compared with 

 241,529 tons at the end of February, 1921, 

 and 146,092 tons at the end of February, 

 1920, according to the Journal des Fabri- 

 cants de Sucre for March 25, 1922. Stocks on 

 March 1, 1922, amounted to 97,289 tons, as 

 compared with 151,016 tons and 72,097 tons 

 on the corresponding dates of 1921 and 1920. 



According to Die Deutsche Zuckerindus- 



trie, the X'etherlands produced 344,100 

 metric tons of sugar (refined value) in the 

 September-Februar>' period. 



Sugar Situation in Italy 



It has been officially stated that the Ital- 

 ian state sugar control will be abolished 

 about the middle of next August. Govern- 

 ment imports of raw sugar from now until 

 that date are estimated at 10,000 metric 

 tons, with 10,000 tons of refined sugar im- 

 ported privately under license.- The area 

 planted to beets this spring is much larger 

 than that of last season. With a fair farm- 

 ing season Italy should be self-supporting 

 next year; but the prospect of the countr\' 

 becoming an exporter on an important scale 

 is remote, as the population of the kingdom 

 is now 4.000.000 in excess of 1911 and the 

 present consumption is 2 70.000 metric tons 

 yearly, or 16.3 pounds per capita, as com- 

 pared with 10.1 pounds before the war. The 

 marked rise in per capita consumption is 

 due to the higher standard of living and to 

 the development of the crystallized-fruit 

 and other sugar-consuming industries. 



