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THE CUBA R E V 1 E W 



A new wireless station that will close up 

 a big gap between the gulf ports and the 

 tropics will be erected at Ceiba, on the 

 Atlantic coast of Honduras. With this 

 station operating, both the commercial 

 world and the ocean-going vessels will be 

 benetitted. Good connections with Cuba 

 has been the rule, but out of Cuba to the 

 tropics it has been uncertain, owing to the 

 scattered condition of the stations and the 

 distance intervening. Good wireless con- 

 nections between Ceiba and Cviba will be 

 an easy matter. 



Cuba recently exported 101,376 boxes of 

 matches, made in the island, to Colon, Pa- 

 nama. The matches v/ere forwarded by 

 a local match factory for the account of 

 a well-known cigarette factory, and it is 

 the first shipment of matches ever sent out 

 of Cuba. 



Cuba, with its two and a quarter millions 

 of people, bought from the United States 

 in the first ten months of 1910 nearly 50 

 per cent more than China and Japan to- 

 gether. 



In October, 1909, 2,648 immigrants landed 

 in Cuba, as compared with 4,096 for Oc- 

 tober, 1910. They came principally from 

 Spain and the Azores, and are much sought 

 for by Cuban sugar planters. Many re- 

 turn to their own country when work 

 slackens, but a vast number will remain. 



New Customs Ruling 



Acting on advices from the government 

 of Cuba, the Cuban Consul at Cincinnati, 

 Francisco Pena, has notified exporters of 

 a recent customs ruling of his government, 

 under which, in future, all invoices of 

 goods shipped to Cuba must show the 

 amount of freight paid from starting point 

 of the shipment to the port of exportation. 

 If the shipment has been insured, the cost 

 of same must also appear on the invoice. 



The freight from port of exportation in 

 United States to port of importation in 

 Cuba need not be included. 



If the goods are sold f. o. b. port of ex- 

 portation, the cost of freight from starting 

 point to port of exportation need not be 

 shown on the invoice, but the fact that the 

 goods have been sold f. o. b. port of ex- 

 port must be stated on the invoices. — Cin- 

 cinnati Inquirer. 



Extra Duty Revoked 



In order to protect the bed spring in- 

 dustry in Cuba, President Gomez has 

 signed a decree taking off the extra duty 

 imposed by decree 44 on all the wire im- 

 ported for the manufacture of wirj bed 

 springs. 



The duty on wire under sections a, b and 

 c of paragraph 44 of the tariff is $1.00, 

 $1.30 and $1.60 per 100 kilograms. Decree 

 44 adds 30 per cent on that duty, and by 

 the present decree that extra duty is re- 

 moved. If the wire comes from the 

 United States, there is a reduction of 2.5 

 per cent under the reciprocity treaty. 



Pier Construction in Cuba 



By Cuban executive decree permission is 

 granted to the Compania del Puerto, pres- 

 ent owner of the concession granted to 

 Mr. Sylvester Scovel in November, 1905, 

 to construct four piers in the port of Ha- 

 vana (in place of the one large pier author- 

 ized by the original concession), as fol- 

 lows : 



(A) One in front of the Plaza de San 

 Francisco, 313 meters long and 50 wide; 



(B) one in front of the custom-house 

 (Aduana), 195 meters long and 50 wide ; 



(C) one in front of the Machina, 186 

 meters long and 50 wide, and (D) one in 

 front of Obrapia Street, 133 meters long 

 and 33 wide. 



Piers A and B are to be constructed 

 at once, and C and D when they are re- 

 quired by the increasing commerce of the 

 port. A space of 80 meters is to be left 

 between piers A and B and B and C, and 

 of 66 meters between D and A. Ware- 

 houses are to be constructed on these 

 piers, and provision is made for a public 

 street along (under the warehouses) their 

 inshore end. — From American Minister 

 Jolin B. Jackson, Havana. 



The official Gazette of Spain published 

 on November 19th a royal decree applying 

 to Cuban products, granting them the low- 

 est duties. It is one of the results of the 

 negotiations of the Hispano-Cuban treaty 

 now proceeding. 



During the month of November the cus- 

 tom house receipts amounted to $415,345, 

 which is the highest since the establish- 

 ment of the liberal government. 



Argentina's commerce with Cuba for five years, beginning with 1905, shows many 

 fluctuations. The figures follow.: 



1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 



Imports 505,062 679,581 576,982 680,685 648,491 



Exports 420,525 247,391 724,480 289,466 



543,958 



