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THE CUBA REVIEW 



Canada 



The annual consumption of sugar in Can- 

 ada appears to have reached a fairly cons- 

 tant level at about 300.000 tons, although, 

 in spite of somewhat high prices, a moder- 

 ate increase of about 9^^ is indicated for 

 the year of 1Q21 by the official statistics of 

 the Canadian Government. 



Expressed as refined sugar the consump- 

 tion was 329.473 tons compared with 302.- 

 382 tons in 1920. Taking the population 

 of Canada as 8.370.000 in both years, the 

 per capita consumption is computed as 

 88.17 lbs. in 1921 and 80.92 lbs. in 1920. 



In spite of the large stocks of sugar 

 carried over from 1921. for much of which 

 high prices were paid, refiners were able to 

 maintain a reasonable price level and the 

 average for refined sugar for the year ap- 

 pears to have been close to 8c. Refiners 

 were further assisted by the new tariff 

 which went into effect on May 10th and 

 which reduced the duty on British Colonial 

 raw sugar of 96° test to 86c. per 100 lbs., 

 and advanced that on other raw sugars to 

 SI. 69. It also advanced the rate on non- 

 preferential refined sugars to 2.40c. As no 

 refined sugars were available for import 

 from British territory this gave refiners a 

 differential of over V/iC. on refined sugar 

 produced from British raws. 



We print below a table showing the gen- 

 eral movements of sugar during the past 

 two vears, in tons of 2.240 lbs. 



ish Colonial sugars in the Canadian market 

 with those established in England the pre- 

 vious spring. This change resulted in in- 

 creased imports of 83.366 tons of British 

 Colonial sugar and corresponding decreases 

 in other sugars. 



As usual the figures show heavy imports 

 from the United States, which are really 

 trans-shipments at New York, mainly of 

 Santo Domingo and Cuban sugars, espe- 

 cially during the winter. 



Imports of Raw Sug.ar 



In Tons of 



Customs Figures 2240 lbs. 



Imported from: 1921 1920 



United Kingdom 454 1,799 



British Guiana 69,130 23,999 



Jamaica 13,182 15,631 



Barbadoes 20,652 7,687 



Trinidad 13,147 11 



Other British West Indies... . 8,167 766 



Fiji 13,267 4,672 



Total British Possessions 137,999 54,565 



Cuba 60,549 159,722 



Santo Domingo 44.628 34,309 



Peru 26,707 14.192 



Dutch East Indies 4,870 



Japan 2,316 



Hayti 394 1,090 



Venezuela 2,682 871 



United States 56,070 76,822 



Other Countries 549 393 



Total Imported Raw Sugar. . . 334.448 344,280 



Ca.\.\dl-\n Consumption 



1921 1920 



Stock refined January 1 32.896 24.549 



Stock raw January 1 74,559 59.679 



Imports 343,632 344,280 



Production beet sugar 33,482 34,663 



Supplv 484,569 463,171 



Deliveries 352,918 325,440 



E.xports 38,162 30,276 



Requirements 391,080 355,716 



Stock refined Dec. 31 19,401 32.896 



Stock raw Dec. 31 74,088 74,559 



Consumption expressed as re- 

 fined 329,473 302,382 



The imports during the year, while to- 

 talling about the same as in 1920 show 

 some marked changes, principally due to 

 the passage of the tariff bill last Spring 

 which equalized the tariff privileges of Brit- 



Im PORTS OF Refined Sug.a.r 



In Tons of 

 Customs Figures 2240 lbs. 



Imported from: 1921 



British Possessions 141 



United States 6,362 



Other Countries 2,681 



Total Imported Refined Sugar 9,184 



1920 

 209 

 3,044 

 1,070 



4,323 



Exports of Refined Sugar 



In Tons of 



Customs Figures 2240 lbs. 



Exported to: 1921 1920 



United States 248 26.047 



United Kingdom 36,270 502 



Newfoundland 1,461 3.972 



Other Countries 756 289 



Total Exported Refined Sugar 38,735 .30,810 

 — American Sugar Bulletin 



